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Gold Plated ¼ Stater Clacton Cross / Voided Cross Contemporary Counterfeit
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Value | ¼ Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly abstracted zoomorphic motif facing right, generally interpreted as a boar derived from the 'three men in a boat' or 'wolf and twins' prototype, rendered in the typical British Late Iron Age stylized manner. The design is composed of a series of curved and angular relief lines that have become highly degenerate through successive copying. A single annulet is positioned to the right of the central motif within the field. The flan is irregular in outline and the overall strike is typical of a clandestine contemporary forgery produced from a base bronze core subsequently gold-plated. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Iron Age staters and fractional pieces were produced across southern Britain and Gaul throughout the late pre-Roman period, typically by stripping the thin gold wash over a base-metal core — a fraud detectable even then by cutting or biting. The Clacton type belongs to a regional coinage tradition of Essex and the Thames estuary zone, and a plated subærate forgery of this denomination implies enough legitimate gold currency in local circulation to make imitation worth the effort and risk.