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Gold Plated 1/4 Stater Corded Triangle / Late Weald Type Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 40 BC - 35 BC |
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| Value | 1/4 Stater |
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| Reverse description | Stylised horse advancing to the left, with a pellet-in-ring ornament placed on the shoulder. Above the horse, a corded triangle rendered in a distinctive 'V' configuration flanked by additional pellet-in-ring motifs. Below the horse, a cross-hatched net pattern contained within a rectilinear box occupies the lower field. The design follows the Late Weald (Cantian) tradition of debased Celtic coinage, characterised by abstract, highly schematised animal and geometric ornament. |
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| Mintage | ND (40 BC - 35 BC) - Base core - ND (40 BC - 35 BC) - Gold plated - |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Celtic quarter staters are not merely curiosities — they reveal an active, low-level fraud economy operating within late Iron Age Britain decades before Roman conquest. This specific Late Weald type, produced by plating bronze with gold, would have required the counterfeiter to work near the original mint's circulation zone to pass convincingly; the Cantii occupied present-day Kent, and the Weald provided both geographic cover and iron-working infrastructure adaptable to base-metal coin production.
BMC Iron 2471 is the key reference anchoring this piece to a documented ancient forgery tradition rather than modern fabrication.