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Gold Plated Stater Westerham South Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC |
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| Weight | 3.57 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly abstracted rendering of the head of Apollo facing right, derived from the Macedonian prototype, reduced to a series of stylised Celtic design elements. The wreath motif is rendered with upward-pointing leaves, accompanied by crescent forms and a draped cloak suggestion. A characteristic spike-with-curve element appears in the field. The design exhibits the bold, geometric abstraction typical of British Iron Age coinage, with the facial features largely dissolved into decorative motifs. |
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| Reverse description | A highly stylised and disjointed horse progressing to the left, rendered with schematic stick-form legs in the characteristic late Iron Age British manner. A large cluster of multiple pellets is scattered across the field above the horse, with an additional single pellet positioned beneath the animal's body. The overall composition is fragmented and abstracted, consistent with the debased artistic tradition of contemporary counterfeit issues of the Westerham type, the design derived from the original Macedonian gold stater reverse chariot motif now wholly transformed. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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