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Gold Stater North East Coast Diadem and Torcs Type
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Reverse description | Highly disarticulated and stylised horse depicted in motion to the left, with the neck rendered as two sinuous curves in the characteristic Celtic abstract tradition. A pellet grouping and a vestigial charioteer's arm appear above the horse's back, survivals of the original Macedonian stater prototype. Additional pellets are scattered in the lower field. A cabled exergual line curves above a series of arcs and pellet ornaments, framing the lower portion of the design. The entire reverse exhibits the advanced geometric abstraction typical of late Corieltauvi gold coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a large territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and their coinage is unusual among British Celtic issues for frequently carrying paired names — interpreted by most scholars as joint rulers or magistrates rather than sequential reigns. The ABC 1725 type belongs to a production phase predating the more standardized inscribed issues, placing it in a window when the tribe's political structures were still being negotiated in metal.
British gold staters of this period derive their fabric ultimately from Macedonian prototypes transmitted through Gaulish intermediaries over roughly two centuries of copying and abstraction.