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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Tangmere Eel Spear
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 58 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Essentially plain field displaying a highly abstracted, uninscribed design derived from the disintegration of a classical wreath motif. Three short, irregular raised bars or pellet-tipped lines are visible in the field, representing a heavily stylised vestige of the laureate head prototype inherited from Macedonian coinage. The surface is otherwise unadorned, with no legend or border, consistent with the anonymous struck coinage of the southern British Celtic tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Tangmere Eel Spear type takes its name from the findspot concentration around Tangmere, West Sussex — territory corresponding to the Atrebatic tribal zone in the decades before Commius crossed from Gaul and reorganized the regional coinage under his own authority. The eel spear epithet refers to a modern cataloguer's label, not ancient inscription; this is a wholly uninscribed issue, predating the introduction of ruler names onto British Celtic coinage.
ABC 548 sits in a typological sequence that numismatists use to trace cross-Channel contact with Belgic Gaul before the Caesarian campaigns disrupted those networks after 58 BC.