Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Gold Plated 1/4 Stater - Belgae Hayling Wreath Left Type Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
|---|---|
| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Gold plated bronze |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse moving to the left, rendered in the characteristic abstract linear manner of British Iron Age coinage. Two open rings or annulets appear beneath the horse in the lower field. A cluster of pellets is visible above the horse's back, and additional curvilinear decorative elements fill the surrounding field. No legend or inscription is present. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
| Additional information |
Contemporary counterfeits of Belgic quarter staters are well-documented from southern Britain in the late pre-conquest period, produced not by forgers in any modern criminal sense but likely by local smiths meeting demand when official output was insufficient or hoarded. The gold-plated bronze construction — a bronze flan with a thin wash of gold — would have passed readily in low-value transactions where close inspection was unlikely.
The Hayling Island type takes its name from findspot concentration patterns around the Hampshire coast, a region under Atrebatic influence during the period when Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC were disrupting cross-Channel trade networks that these tribes depended on heavily.