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Gold Plated Stater - Vepo Star Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Corieltauvi Tribe |
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| Year | 10-43 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Stylised and highly abstracted head derived from a classical prototype, rendered in the distinctive Late Iron Age Celtic artistic tradition. The facial features are dissolved into a series of flowing curvilinear lines, pellets, and annular motifs distributed across the field. Raised bosses and sinuous relief elements suggest the hair and facial structure, typical of Corieltauvian die-cutting practice. The overall composition is characteristic of a contemporary counterfeit, exhibiting cruder die-work and less assured engraving than official tribal issues. No legend is present on this face. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Iron Age coinage are genuinely difficult to classify — these weren't produced centuries later by collectors or dealers, but circulated alongside legitimate issues, almost certainly with the knowledge of local communities. The Corieltauvi operated across the East Midlands without a centralised mint in the Roman sense, and the loose tribal authority over coin production likely made gold-plated base-metal forgeries easier to introduce and harder to police. Whether this piece entered circulation through opportunism or some sanctioned local economy of debased exchange is an open question the metallurgy alone cannot answer.