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Gold 1/4 Stater - Tasciovanos Quatrefoil
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 20 BC |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Obverse description | A stylised Celtic quatrefoil design composed of four radiating corn ears or leaf elements arranged symmetrically about a central motif of back-to-back crescents. Teardrop pellets fill the angles between the four arms of the quatrefoil, and annulets with pellets ornament the terminal ends of each leaf. The composition is executed in the characteristic La Tène abstract idiom, with boldly modelled relief typical of British Iron Age die engraving. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised Celtic horse prancing to the right, rendered in the abstract curvilinear manner characteristic of late British Iron Age coinage. Three disembodied horse muzzles or pellet-tipped appendages are depicted above the animal's back, a common decorative convention on Catuvellauni quarter staters. An uncertain subsidiary motif, possibly a pellet or linear element, appears beneath the horse in the lower field. The flan is irregular and the overall composition displays the bold, compact die-engraving typical of Tasciovanos-period issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (25 BC - 20 BC) |
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