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Silver Stater Badbury Rings / Pellet and Ring Type
| Issuer | Durotriges tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | 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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| Reverse description | A severely disjointed and abstracted horse prancing left, rendered in the characteristic late Durotrigan idiom. The horse's body is composed of a series of crescents and curved lines, with a rectangular angular head, four near-vertical legs rendered as straight strokes, and a tail formed by three sloping lines with pellets interspersed between them. A single pellet appears below the horse. Above the horse, twelve pellets are arranged in an arc accompanied by a series of pellet-in-ring motifs forming a decorative border. To the left of the horse appears a crescent, while to the right a pellet flanked by two attached crescents provides further ornamentation, all typical of the Badbury Rings / Pellet and Ring sub-type. |
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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.