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Gold Plated Stater Late Whaddon Chase Big Pellet / Pellet Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Catuvellauni tribe (British Celtic) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Contemporary counterfeit coin |
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| Obverse description | Heavily corroded and largely featureless obverse face, the original design entirely obscured by advanced oxidation and surface degradation consistent with the loss of the thin gold plating over the base bronze core. The flan is irregular and misshapen, with a convex profile typical of hammered Celtic staters. No discernible design elements, inscriptions, or decorative motifs survive on this side. The rough, pitted surface texture is characteristic of a debased contemporary counterfeit whose plating has fully delaminated. |
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| Mintage | ND (45 BC - 40 BC) - Base core ND (45 BC - 40 BC) - Gold plated |
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Whaddon Chase staters were among the most widely circulated prestige coins in pre-conquest Britain, which made them an obvious target for contemporary forgers. This plated example — a bronze core struck from dies copying the Whaddon Chase series then washed or plated in gold — was almost certainly produced locally, possibly by a smith operating outside tribal authority. The Big Pellet / Pellet die variety narrows the prototype considerably, suggesting the forger worked from a specific coin rather than a general type.
Plated Celtic forgeries rarely survive with their gold layer intact.