Stater

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.