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Gold Plated Stater - Addedomaros Addedomaros Crescent Cross Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 25 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Addedomaros staters are not medieval forgeries or modern fakes — they were produced and circulated within the same community, at roughly the same time as the genuine issues, almost certainly by unofficial moneyers who understood the local economy well enough to exploit it. The bronze core would eventually show through wear, but in a pre-literate tribal economy where coin recognition depended more on shape and general appearance than metallurgical assay, these pieces functioned.
Addedomaros is the earliest named ruler of the Trinovantian sequence, his coinage predating the Catuvellaunian absorption of that territory under Cunobelin.