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Gold Plated ¼ Stater Robinson Contemporary Counterfeit
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| Year | 35 BC - 30 BC |
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| Value | ¼ Stater |
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| Obverse description | Severely abstracted and stylised head of Apollo facing right, derived from the Gallo-Belgic coinage tradition. The wreath is rendered schematically as two parallel pellet lines, with a prominent central spike flanked by two large pellets and a radiating sunburst motif. A row of oblique dashes, representing the continuation of the wreath, runs through the spike element, filling the field in a distinctly abstract Celtic artistic manner. |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylised Celtic horse with three distinctive annulate tails advancing left, the body decorated with a pellet-in-ring motif on both the breast and rump, characteristic of Late Iron Age British coinage iconography. A cogwheel or rayed sunburst-in-ring device appears both above and below the horse, occupying the upper and lower fields respectively. The overall composition is typical of contemporary counterfeit issues imitating Gallo-Belgic or British quarter stater prototypes, executed in a degenerate but recognisable style. |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Macedonian-style fractional gold were produced throughout the eastern Mediterranean during the late Republican period, typically by plating a bronze core with a thin wash of gold sufficient to pass casual inspection in low-value transactions. The Robinson classification identifies a specific group of these, named after the scholar E.S.G. Robinson, who systematically documented plated fractional staters in the mid-twentieth century.
At 0.65g, this piece would have been detectable by any merchant with a balance scale.