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Gold Plated Stater - Volisios Cartivellaunos Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 40-43 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a vertical wreath motif flanked by two horizontal lines of inscription contained within plain border lines. The remaining quarters of the die are decorated with a ring of pellets and a three-armed spiral enclosed within a ring, disposed in opposing quarters, reflecting the Late Iron Age Celtic geometric artistic tradition. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised lunate horse prancing left, rendered in the abstracted Celtic idiom with a large, open head. A pellet triad is positioned beneath the horse's head. The royal inscription appears in three registers: above the horse, below the chest in ligate form, and before the horse, the latter legend being partly formed by the animal's own legs as an integrated design element. |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Corieltauvian staters are well-documented and were almost certainly produced locally, not by itinerant forgers — the plating technology required a working knowledge of the tribe's own issues. Volisios Cartivellaunos ruled in the years immediately preceding the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, and coins bearing his name represent the final phase of independent Corieltauvian coinage before Roman administration dismantled native monetary production entirely.
The fact that someone thought it worth faking this issue at all suggests genuine staters were circulating at a premium worth deceiving for.