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Stater
| Issuer | Uncertain Gallia Belgica tribes |
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| Year | 120 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 18.5 mm |
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| Reverse description | Stylized Celtic horse advancing right, its body dissolved into bold curvilinear forms characteristic of Belgic La Tène coinage. The horse's anatomy is rendered through a series of arching lines, pellets, and comma-shaped elements, with detached limbs and a sinuous torso typical of the disjointed style of Gallia Belgica staters. Globular pellets are scattered throughout the field, and a geometric or abstracted charioteer figure appears above the horse's back. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (120 BC - 50 BC) |
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The Belgic gold staters descending from the Macedonian gold of Philip II reached northern Gaul through a chain of imitation so long and geographically diffuse that attributing individual pieces to a specific tribe remains genuinely contested. LT 8593 sits in a cluster of types where Scheers's classification work in the 1970s remains the primary — and still imperfect — framework for attribution. The progressive abstraction of the prototype across successive die generations was not artistic drift; it reflects transmission through communities with no written tradition and no centralized mint.