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Gold Stater Curdridge B
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 55 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Reverse description | Disjointed horse prancing left in the characteristically fragmented Celtic manner, its rectangular body formed by two opposing curved segments. Four parallel lines extend behind the legs. Numerous pellets are scattered above the horse, with an elongated oval pellet directly above, occasionally furnished with lateral arms. A four-armed spiral occupies the field in front of the horse. A small reverse-S motif appears below the neck. A coffee-bean-shaped pellet, unattached to any linear element, is positioned behind the horse. Below, a four-pronged pellet crab device — with plain or lightly pelleted ends — rests above an exergual line decorated with a zigzag pattern and additional pellets. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 55 BC) |
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The Curdridge B type takes its name from the Hampshire findspot where a significant concentration of these staters came to light, a naming convention common to uninscribed British Celtic coinage where no issuing authority declared itself in text. These coins predate Roman contact with Britain proper — Julius Caesar's first crossing came in 55 BC, the very end of this type's production window — placing them squarely in a monetary world organized around inter-tribal exchange and cross-Channel trade with Armorican Gaul rather than any Roman-influenced monetary framework.