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Gold Stater - Aunt Cost Aunt Cost Left
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15-40 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Abstract Celtic wreath design composed of interlocking curved elements, bisected by a horizontal bar terminating in a crescent at each end. Each crescent encloses a ring of pellets, characteristic of the Corieltauvi decorative idiom. The overall composition is highly stylised, reflecting the late Iron Age British Celtic artistic tradition in which naturalistic imagery has been reduced to geometric and curvilinear motifs. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a territory roughly corresponding to the East Midlands — Leicester, Lincoln, and surrounding areas — and were among the few British tribes to develop a sustained coinage tradition in the decades immediately before the Roman conquest of 43 AD. The "Aunt Cost" inscription remains one of the more debated in Celtic numismatics; the prevailing interpretation reads it as a dual magistrate formula, suggesting joint authority over the tribe's coinage rather than a single ruler's name, though no consensus on the individuals involved has been reached.
ABC 1929 places this type firmly within the final flourishing of autonomous Corieltavian issue before Roman administration rendered tribal coinage obsolete.