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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Ratham Seven Six
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 58 BC |
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| Weight | 1 g |
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| Reverse description | A disjointed, highly stylised Celtic horse advancing to the right, rendered with three sinuous tails emanating from the hindquarters, a hallmark of this specific type. Above the horse, a seven-petalled floral or solar rosette occupies the upper field, while a six-petalled floral rosette is positioned below. The composition reflects the typical abstract and fragmented decorative vocabulary of southern British Celtic quarter staters, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 58 BC) |
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The Atrebates occupied territory straddling what is now the Hampshire-Sussex border, and their coinage tradition derived ultimately from Macedonian gold staters that entered Britain through Gaulish intermediaries during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. The "Ratham Seven Six" designation within ABC#557 reflects the progressive abstraction of those imported prototypes — each generation of dies moving further from the original Hellenistic horse-and-chariot imagery through purely geometric distortion.
Quarter staters of this weight class were almost certainly used in elite gift exchange and tribute rather than everyday commerce. The archaeology of Hampshire hoards consistently places these alongside other prestige metalwork.