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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Ratham Wreath
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised derivative of an Apollo head rendered in the Celtic La Tène tradition, depicting a wreath motif reduced to a pattern of curved lines and pellets. A prominent pellet-in-ring device is centrally placed within a circular arrangement of pellets, representing the abstracted laurel wreath surrounding the deity's head. The design is characteristic of the Atrebatic coinage tradition, with the naturalistic Hellenistic prototype dissolved into flowing abstract ornament across the irregular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates are believed to have migrated to southern Britain from the Belgic regions of Gaul sometime in the late second or early first century BC, bringing with them a coinage tradition derived ultimately from the gold staters of Philip II of Macedon — distorted through generations of stylistic abstraction as the types passed west and north across the Channel. By the time quarter staters of this type were struck, the original imagery had been reduced to near-geometric fragments, the wreath motif one of the few recognizable survivors of that long transmission.
ABC 611 is associated with the period before named rulers appear on Atrebatic coinage — Tincomarus and Eppillus would not claim the series for another generation or more.