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Gold Stater - Tasciovanos Carnyx Low Tail
| Issuer | Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 20 BC - 15 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Obverse description | Cruciform design composed of two crossed wreath sprays, the horizontal wreath curving with its apex oriented clockwise when the central crescents are upright. Each wreath terminates in large ringed pellets at both ends. At the centre, a pair of thick, solid back-to-back crescents are separated by a group of three pellets. Opposing angles of the cruciform display a splayed V-shape with a ringed pellet to one or both sides, while the remaining angles contain a schematic hidden face motif formed by a solid crescent mouth, a V-shaped forehead line, flanking ringed pellets, and subsidiary pellets in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A mounted warrior strides to the right on a rounded horse, brandishing a carnyx war-trumpet; the horse's tail droops downward in the low-tail variety diagnostic of this issue. A five-spoked wheel device is positioned behind the horse's hindquarters and above its head. The tribal name inscription is arranged around the horse, commencing behind the animal, continuing beneath the belly, and concluding in front of the head. A single exergual line divides the lower field, below which appear a four-spoked wheel and a pellet. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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