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Gold Stater North East Coast Three Line Type
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Stylised disjointed Celtic horse motif facing right, rendered in the abstract La Tène manner characteristic of Corieltauvi coinage. The horse's body is composed of fluid, curvilinear raised lines, with limbs separated and rearranged in a decorative rather than naturalistic fashion. Three prominent lines — the type-defining feature of this issue — are visible in the field, likely derived from the chariot or wheel elements of the Macedonian prototype. Scattered pellets and annulets fill the field, serving as decorative punctuation typical of British Iron Age gold staters. The flan is irregular and slightly fissured at the edge, consistent with the hammered production technique of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a territory roughly corresponding to the modern East Midlands, and their coinage developed from Gallo-Belgic prototypes imported into Britain before any local striking began. The Three Line type sits within a sequence of Corieltavian gold issues that progressively abstracted the original Macedonian stater design — each generation of dies moving further from the source until the imagery became wholly geometric. This particular type is named for the distinctive triple-line arrangement on the reverse, one of several diagnostic features used to distinguish it within what is otherwise a tightly clustered family of related dies.