Gold Plated Stater - Tasciovanos Warrior Series B Contemporary Counterfeit

Contemporary counterfeits of Tasciovanos staters were not crude opportunism — they required someone with access to dies, plating technology, and an understanding of how gold coinage circulated in late Iron Age Britain. The bronze core would have been fire-gilded or foil-wrapped, convincing enough to pass in low-scrutiny exchange. That this example references the Warrior Series B type suggests the forger was copying a coin already in active circulation, most likely within Catuvellauni territory centered on Verulamium.

BMC Iron Age 1614 anchors the attribution firmly despite the counterfeit status.