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Silver Stater Badbury Rings / Pellet and Ring Type
| Emittent | Durotriges tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Jahr | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Form | Round (irregular) |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Highly stylised, abstract rendering of the Apollo head in the Celtic tradition, facing right. The wreath is depicted as an arc of raised pellets and leaf forms rising above the crown, with flowing drapery indicated by curved lines at the neck and a series of crescents framing the face. Two distinctive pellets appear below the lowermost curl of the hair, serving as a diagnostic feature of this type. The overall design reflects the progressive abstraction of the Macedonian Philip II gold stater prototype characteristic of Durotrigan coinage. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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The Durotriges occupy a peculiar position in Iron Age numismatics: they began with high-silver staters imitating Macedonian gold prototypes and, through decades of deliberate debasement, ended up producing billon and eventually cast bronze pieces with almost no silver content. This stater sits near the transitional middle of that decline, struck during the generation just before the Claudian invasion made the question of tribal coinage moot.
Badbury Rings, the Dorset hillfort that lends its name to this type, has long been proposed as a major Durotrigan political and possibly minting centre, though no confirmed die evidence has been excavated there to date.