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Gold 1/4 Stater Sideways S
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Highly abstracted and devolved representation of the head of Apollo facing right, reduced to a stylised wreath motif in which the inner ends of each leaf point downward. Linear crescents appear in the field before the face, with a draped cloak element rendered below. A prominent hairbar or spike traverses the wreath horizontally, terminating in an inverted arc at its end. Opposing hair curls are disposed above and below the hairbar, reflecting the distinctive Late Iron Age Celtic artistic tradition of geometric figure decomposition. |
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| Reverse description | A triple-tailed horse strides to the right, rendered in the characteristic abstract Celtic style, with a solid-line mane. A sunburst rosette motif appears both above the horse's back and below the tail, serving as field ornaments. An annulet is placed below the horse's body. In the lower field, a sideways S symbol is flanked above and below by horizontal lines, serving as the defining type-identifier for this issue. |
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The Atrebates occupied a territory spanning both sides of the Channel, and the tribal name itself appears in Caesar's Gallic War accounts — he encountered them as a Belgic people during his invasions of 55 and 54 BC. That timing is not coincidental. The burst of coinage production among southeastern British tribes in this decade is closely linked to the economic and political disruption Caesar's campaigns caused, compressing trade networks and forcing local elites to assert authority through coin issues.
The Sills 233 classification places this firmly in a transitional phase before Commios established his British branch of the Atrebatan dynasty.