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Gold Plated Stater Chute Contemporary Counterfeit
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| Year | 65 BC - 55 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Heavily corroded and worn field bearing the heavily degraded remnants of a design imitating a Late Iron Age British gold stater of the Chute type, struck on an irregular bronze flan subsequently plated with gold. The original design elements — typically a stylised laureate head derived from the Macedonian stater prototype — are no longer legible, having been entirely obscured by extensive patination, encrustation, and corrosion consistent with the loss of the thin gold wash over the base-metal core. The flan exhibits an irregular, scalloped edge characteristic of hand-struck contemporary counterfeits of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field similarly heavily corroded and encrusted, with faint traces of a stylised disjointed horse motif — the canonical reverse type of the Chute-type stater — barely discernible beneath the thick patina and mineralisation. The gold plating has been entirely lost across the surface, exposing the degraded bronze core and rendering the typical pellet and line decorative elements of the field indistinguishable. The irregular, scalloped flan edge and uneven fabric confirm this piece as a contemporary base-metal forgery struck to deceive ancient users rather than a modern fabrication. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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