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Gold Stater Early Whaddon Chase Cogwheel
| Issuer | Catuvellauni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Whaddon Chase type takes its name from a hoard discovered in Buckinghamshire in 1849, which produced dozens of these staters and effectively defined the series for subsequent scholarship. The "cogwheel" designation distinguishes an earlier die tradition within the broader Whaddon Chase grouping, and the ABC 2436 reference places this specimen within a classification system still contested among specialists — Van Arsdell's attribution to the Catuvellauni remains the consensus but is not universally accepted.
Production coincides almost exactly with Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC, though whether that political disruption affected Catuvellaunian minting patterns in any measurable way is unresolved.