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Gold Stater - Addedomaros Floral Spiral Circle Type
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 25 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Obverse description | Plain convex field bearing a central device of two back-to-back crescents arranged symmetrically, their horns touching at top and bottom to form a vesica-shaped composition. The interior of each crescent is decorated with radiating lines and a cluster of pellets, evoking an abstract solar or floral motif characteristic of Late Iron Age Celtic die-cutting. The surrounding field is otherwise unadorned, the blank flan surface showing the typical irregular contour of a hand-struck Celtic gold stater. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Addedomaros was almost certainly the first named ruler of the Trinovantes following Julius Caesar's two expeditions into Britain in 55 and 54 BC, which had forced the tribe into a client relationship with Rome and fatally weakened their Catuvellauni rivals to the west. His coinage — struck across multiple types — marks the point at which southeastern British tribes began asserting individual dynastic identity through currency rather than issuing anonymous regional types. This stater belongs to that transitional moment.
The ABC 2508 attribution places it within the documented sequence established by Van Arsdell and refined by Cottam, Hobbs, and colleagues in the Ancient British Coinage corpus.