Stater large pellet

The Caleti were a Belgic tribe occupying the Seine-Maritime region of northern Gaul, and their gold staters derive from the Macedonian gold staters of Philip II that circulated through the Celtic world as trade and mercenary payment beginning in the 4th century BC. By the time the Caleti were striking their own issues, the original prototype had been abstracted through generations of copying into the characteristic disjointed forms seen across Belgic coinage. The large pellet variant is distinguished from related Caleti types by a single prominent pellet, a detail used by specialists to differentiate die groups within this scarce tribal series.