Catalog
Gold 1/4 Stater Torksey Quarter
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 10 BC |
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| Weight | 1.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised Celtic design derived from a laureate head, divided into four quarters by radial spokes emanating from a central pellet-in-ring motif. Each quarter is filled with abstracted crescentic forms and flowing, rope-like locks of hair rendered in the characteristically plastic La Tène artistic tradition. The overall composition retains the cruciform framework of its prototype while dissolving figural elements into bold, deeply struck curvilinear ornament. No legend or inscription is present, the field being entirely decorative. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a territory roughly corresponding to modern Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, and their coinage is unusual among British Celtic tribes for showing a prolonged, relatively sophisticated development of abstract design without ever adopting the inscribed issues that southern tribes borrowed from Gaulish and Roman practice. The Torksey type takes its name from the find concentration around that Lincolnshire location, suggesting either a mint site or a major redistribution point — the distinction matters and remains unresolved.
At 1.2g, this is fractional coinage in practical terms, likely used in high-value exchanges rather than everyday trade.