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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Wonersh Right Type
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Value | 1/4 Stater |
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| Obverse description | Central design composed of two back-to-back outline crescents enclosed within a pattern of crossed wreaths formed by pellet clusters, arranged in a cruciform configuration. Two pellets are positioned adjacent to the central crescent motif. The overall composition is characteristic of the abstract Celtic decorative tradition derived from earlier Macedonian stater prototypes, rendered in the typical low-relief hammered style of the Atrebatic coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Wonersh Right type takes its name from the Surrey findspot where a significant concentration of these coins came to light, helping numismatists map the territorial reach of the Atrebates into what is now the Guildford hinterland. The Atrebates themselves migrated to Britain from the Belgic regions of Gaul — Caesar mentions them directly in the Gallic Wars — bringing with them a coinage tradition already in decline from the elegant Macedonian gold that originally inspired it.
Van Arsdell's sequencing places this type late in the uninscribed series, just before named rulers begin appearing on Atrebatic issues with Commios.