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Gold Stater Whaddon Mule
| Issuer | Catuvellauni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised and abstracted laureate head derived from a Classical Greek prototype, rendered in the characteristically schematic Celtic manner. The facial features are dissolved into a series of bold curvilinear lines and pellet-and-arc motifs radiating across the flan, with the hair resolved into sweeping linear strands. The composition fills the irregularly shaped flan to its edges, with no legend or exergual inscription, reflecting the aniconic Celtic artistic tradition. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The term "mule" here denotes a coin struck from dies not originally intended to be paired — in this case combining obverse and reverse elements from distinct Whaddon Chase type dies. Whether this reflects deliberate experimentation by tribal moneyers or simple opportunism when a die cracked mid-production is unresolved. The Catuvellauni controlled mint output across a politically volatile stretch of southern Britain, and the decade bracketing Caesar's two expeditions to Britain created genuine administrative disruption to coinage production.
Sills 461 is a documented variety with a small confirmed population.