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Gold Stater - Corio Corio Tree
| Issuer | Dobunni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 15 BC |
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| Weight | 5.6 g |
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| Obverse description | Convex, largely plain field displaying a stylized tree or plant motif rendered in the characteristically abstract Celtic artistic tradition. The design features a central vertical stem with opposed diagonal branches terminating in pellet-form buds or leaves, occupying the left portion of the flan. A single prominent pellet appears below the tree in the lower field. The remainder of the flan is blank and gently convex, consistent with the die-struck fabric typical of late Iron Age British coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Dobunni occupied a territory centered on the modern Cotswolds, and their coinage sequence is one of the better-documented among British Celtic issues precisely because several types carry inscribed names — Corio among them. Whether these names denote kings, magistrates, or some other authority remains genuinely contested; the tribal structure of late Iron Age Britain didn't map neatly onto the coin-issuing hierarchies of Gaul or Rome. Corio is attested on only a small cluster of types, making the absolute chronology tight and the total surviving population correspondingly modest.