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Silver Plated Stater Cranborne Chase Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Durotriges tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 58 BC - 45 BC |
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| Weight | 4.0 g |
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| Reverse description | A crude and highly stylized horse moving left, rendered in the characteristically abstract Durotrigian manner. The head is depicted as a simple rectangle, while the body is composed of crescent motifs, and the four legs appear as roughly vertical lines descending from the body. Three approximately horizontal lines form the tail, with a coffee-bean or pellet motif positioned above it. A single pellet appears below the horse, while twelve pellets and a small elliptical pellet are arranged above the figure, filling the field in the manner typical of late Durotrigian coinage. The composition is disjointed and highly schematized, consistent with the degenerate artistic tradition of this series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Cranborne Chase type is among the most extensively studied series of Celtic British coinage, and the contemporary counterfeits within it present a genuine classificatory puzzle — they were not crude forgeries meant to deceive for a single transaction, but rather silver-plated pieces produced during a period when the Durotriges were already debasing their own official issues toward uninscribed cast bronze. The line between "official" and "counterfeit" in this series is functionally blurred; the tribe's own silver content was falling so sharply through this period that a plated bronze piece may have circulated without meaningful fraud.