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Gold Plated Stater - Aunt Cost Aunt Cost Left Base Core
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15-40 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | A schematised lunate horse advancing left, depicted in the highly stylised abstract manner typical of Corieltauvian tribal coinage. The horse features a large, rounded head rendered as a pellet within a ring, with a further pellet at the centre of the body. A question-mark-shaped object appears below the tail. The bilinear inscription AVN T COST appears above and below the horse, though it is frequently blundered or retrograde on individual specimens, and characteristically lacks a crossbar in the letter A. |
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| Mintage | ND (15-40) |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a broad territory across what is now the East Midlands, and their coinage tradition reflects a tribe that was minting with some sophistication in the decades immediately before the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. Gold-plated bronze staters — fourrées, in the broadest sense — from this series are not straightforwardly ancient counterfeits; some scholars argue they were issued tribally as an intentional lower-value denomination rather than deceptive imitations. The "Aunt Cost" inscription type is among the later Corieltauvian issues, likely associated with a ruler or ruling pair whose names survive only in these abbreviated coin legends.