Stater Charioteer facing right

The so-called "charioteer" staters of Gallia Celtica descend from Macedonian gold staters of Philip II, absorbed into Gaulish circulation after his campaigns brought enormous quantities of Greek coinage into northern and central Europe. Over roughly three generations, Celtic die-cutters progressively abstracted the original design until the human figure and vehicle became near-geometric — a process of deliberate artistic transformation, not degraded copying.

Attribution to a specific tribe remains unresolved. The "var." designation against DT#3615 signals a die combination or stylistic detail that doesn't align cleanly with the documented corpus, which is itself incomplete for this region and century.