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Stater 'Atrebatic B'

Issuer Atrebates and Regini tribes
Year 60 BC - 20 BC
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Diameter 20 mm
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (60 BC - 20 BC)
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The Atrebates were a Belgic tribe straddling both sides of the Channel, and their British coinage tradition descended from the gold staters of Philip II of Macedon that spread westward through Gaul as military pay and trade currency. The 'B' classification within the Atrebatic stater sequence reflects a stylistic degeneration from the original Macedonian prototype — a process that unfolded over generations of local die-cutting, progressively abstracting the original imagery into the curvilinear vocabulary native to British Celtic metalwork.

The forty-year production window spans Caesar's Gallic campaigns and their direct aftermath, a period that severed or complicated cross-Channel tribal networks the Atrebates had long relied upon.

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