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Gold Plated Stater South Ferriby Legs / Transitional Two Contemporary Counterfeit
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| Year | 45 BC - 10 BC |
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| Weight | 5.8 g |
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| Obverse description | Blank convex obverse field, devoid of any design or inscription, retaining traces of gold plating over a bronze core. The surface exhibits a characteristically domed, uninscribed appearance typical of late Iron Age British stater flans produced by contemporary counterfeiters. Patchy gold wash remains visible amid areas of exposed, corroded bronze substrate, consistent with the degraded plating of a contemporary forgery. The flan is irregular in outline, with an uneven, hammered surface bearing no intentional decorative motif. |
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| Mintage | ND (45 BC - 10 BC) - Base core ND (45 BC - 10 BC) - Gold plated |
| Additional information |
Contemporary counterfeits of Corieltauvian staters are well-documented, and the South Ferriby type attracted imitators precisely because the tribe's coinage already circulated across a wide geographic corridor from the Humber down into the east Midlands. A plated bronze core with gold wash could pass at speed in a market transaction — most recipients were not metallurgists. The "Legs" variety sits within the transitional sequence between the earlier uninscribed issues and those bearing partial inscriptions, a period of administrative flux that likely made quality control of the currency less rigorous and counterfeiting proportionally easier.