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Gold Stater North East Coast Right Type with Sun
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC |
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| Weight | 6.0 g |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prancing to the right, rendered in the abstract Celtic manner typical of Corieltauvian coinage, its body decomposed into flowing curvilinear elements and bold crescentic forms. Above the horse's back appears a rayed solar symbol or sun motif with radiating lines, a defining characteristic of this type. Scattered pellets and curved subsidiary ornaments fill the field around the horse, while a spiral device appears beneath the animal's neck on certain varieties. The overall composition descends from the reverse of the gold stater of Philip II of Macedon, though thoroughly transformed through generations of Celtic reinterpretation. |
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| Mintage | ND (-55) - VA 800-05: Spiral, small pellets on obverse - ND (-55) - VA 800-07: Six-armed spiral under horse`s neck - ND (-55) - VA 800-09: Spiral, no small pellets on obverse - ND (-55) - VA 800-11: Four-armed spiral under horse`s neck - |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a substantial territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and their coinage developed from Gallo-Belgic prototypes imported into Britain before local striking began. This type — the Northeast Coast Right series — represents a phase of that transition, when Corieltavian smiths were producing increasingly abstracted derivatives of the Macedonian gold stater of Philip II, the original template having traveled northwest through Gaul over two centuries of trade and tribal exchange.
The tribe is notable for appearing to have operated a joint or collegiate leadership, with coin legends occasionally naming paired rulers rather than a single king — an arrangement without close parallel among British Iron Age issuers.