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Gold Plated Stater - Verica Verica Warrior Star Contemporary Counterfeit

Issuer Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain)
Year 10-20
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Obverse description Deeply convex, irregular flan with heavily degraded gold plating over a bronze core, revealing extensive verdigris patination across the field. The obverse bears the remains of a stylised design characteristic of late Atrebatic Celtic coinage, likely derived from a classicising prototype, rendered in the abstract curvilinear tradition of British Iron Age die-cutting. The surface is severely worn and corroded, with surviving areas of gold wash distributed unevenly, consistent with a contemporary counterfeit struck to imitate the authorised staters of Verica. The legend COM.F, denoting 'Son of Commios', would originally have appeared in the field, though it is largely illegible on this example due to surface deterioration.
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Obverse lettering COM.F
(Translation: Son of Commios.)
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Reverse script Latin
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