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Gold Stater - Belgae Chute-Cheriton Transitional
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 55 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised and abstracted rendering of a laureate head derived from the Macedonian stater prototype, characteristic of the Chute-Cheriton transitional type. The facial features have been reduced to curvilinear Celtic artistic conventions, with diagonal raised ridges representing hair locks sweeping across the upper field. A cluster of raised oval pellets arranged in a berry-like grouping occupies the right portion of the field, a motif typical of the Belgic coinage tradition. The overall design exhibits the progressive abstraction from the original Philip II of Macedon prototype, with no legible inscription or legend present. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 55 BC) |
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The Chute-Cheriton Transitional occupies a specific evolutionary moment in British Celtic coinage — it sits between the abstract disintegration of the Gallo-Belgic E imports and the fully localised British Q stater tradition. The Atrebates appear to have arrived in southern Britain from the Belgic regions of Gaul sometime in the late second or early first century BC, bringing Continental striking practices with them, and their earliest issues show a coinage still negotiating between imported prototypes and emerging insular conventions.
The "transitional" classification is typological, not speculative — ABC 752 is defined by specific die-linked characteristics that place it sequentially between established ABC types with reasonable confidence.