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| 正面描述 | Two schematically rendered male figures seated in a boat, depicted in characteristic Late Iron Age Celtic artistic style. Four four-pointed stars are distributed around the figures in the field, serving as decorative or symbolic fill elements. The design is rendered in low relief on an irregular flan typical of pre-Roman British coinage. No legend or inscription is present, consistent with the anepigraphy of this series. |
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| 背面描述 | A stylised tree-like motif occupies the upper field, its branches rendered in abstracted Celtic fashion. Below the tree, a bent or curved bar spans the lower field, beneath which are arranged a crescent with a pellet in its cusp and a phallic symbol flanked by ringed pellets on each side. These elements are intentionally composed to form a concealed anthropomorphic face when viewed as a whole, a device known in British Celtic coinage iconography. The design is executed in low relief without inscription. |
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The Atrebates arrived in southern Britain from Gaul sometime in the late second or early first century BC, bringing with them coinage traditions ultimately derived from Macedonian gold staters — the Philip II type — which had traveled northwest through centuries of trade and mercenary payment. By the time this quarter stater was struck, that original Hellenistic prototype had been abstracted almost beyond recognition through successive generations of Celtic reinterpretation. ABC 539 is attributed to the period just before Caesar's invasions of 55 and 54 BC, when the Atrebatic kingdom under Commios was consolidating its position across what is now Hampshire and West Sussex.