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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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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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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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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a schematically rendered horse or animal represented by three curved, crescent-shaped leg elements arranged dynamically in the field, derived from the disintegrated chariot-horse design of the South Ferriby stater type. Scattered pellets appear around the periphery of the field, and a segmented arc or partial border of pellets and short strokes runs along the left margin. The design is set within a roughly circular border, the whole struck on an irregular, gold-plated bronze flan. No legend or inscription is present, consistent with the late-stage abstraction and debasement characteristic of Transitional Two British Iron Age coinage and its contemporary imitations. |
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| Mintage | ND (45 BC - 10 BC) - Base core ND (45 BC - 10 BC) - Gold plated |
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