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Gold Stater "type de Beaune"
| Issuer | Uncertain Gallia Celtica tribes |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in the stylised Celtic manner derived from Macedonian prototypes. The hair is depicted as a mass of richly articulated curls arranged in bold relief, surmounted by a beaded laurel wreath. The facial features are boldly modelled with a prominent nose and well-defined eye. A triskelion motif appears on the neck below the chin, a characteristically Celtic apotropaic symbol integrated into the design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "type de Beaune" takes its name from the find concentration around Beaune in Burgundy, though the issuing authority remains unresolved — multiple Gallia Celtica tribes occupied the region during the second century BC, and attribution has shifted in the literature more than once. These staters circulated during a period of mounting Roman pressure on the transalpine Gauls, well before Caesar's campaigns made such political ambiguities a moot point.
DT#3039 places this squarely within the Delestrée-Tache corpus of Gaulish coinage, a classification system still considered the working standard for Celtic Gallic numismatics despite ongoing revisions.