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Gold Stater Curdridge C
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 55 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised, abstract rendering of the head of Apollo facing right, derived from Macedonian prototype coinage. A schematic wreath is depicted with leaf tips pointing upward, accompanied by a hairbar or spike terminating in a long sweeping arc. A cloak motif and two linear crescents appear below the head, executed in the fluid, curvilinear Celtic artistic tradition characteristic of Southern British Iron Age coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 55 BC) - Pronged squiggle below horse`s neck. Four lines behind the horse - ND (65 BC - 55 BC) - Crescent below horse`s neck. Three lines behind the horse - |
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The Curdridge C stater belongs to a cluster of uninscribed British gold issues produced in the decades immediately before Julius Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC — a period when cross-Channel trade with Belgic Gaul was actively reshaping the coin types circulating across southern Britain. The Atrebates in particular maintained close cultural ties with their continental namesakes, and the stylistic evolution of their stater series reflects that ongoing exchange rather than any isolated local tradition.
Sills's die study separates the Curdridge group into discrete subtypes with measurable die linkages, placing this variety firmly within a coherent production sequence rather than treating it as a stray outlier.