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Stater 'Yarmouth C'
| Issuer | Brittonic, Uncertain tribe |
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| Year | 80 BC - 60 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised and fragmented effigy of Apollo facing right, rendered in the characteristically abstracted Late Iron Age Brittonic manner derived from Macedonian prototypes. The facial features are dissolved into a series of raised pellets, crescents, and sinuous relief lines distributed across the field, with no legible legend or inscription. The design retains vestigial elements of the laureate head — including curvilinear hair strands and a prominent curved outline suggesting the profile — but these are thoroughly deconstructed into abstract geometric forms. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with a green-gold electrum surface patina consistent with the mixed alloy composition. |
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| Reverse description | Stylised horse prancing to the right, rendered in the highly abstract La Tène artistic tradition typical of British Iron Age coinage. The horse's body is composed of disjointed curvilinear and pellet elements, with the forelegs splaying forward to form two diverging branches of a star-like motif before the animal. Subsidiary symbols — including pellets, crescents, and geometric ornaments — are scattered throughout the field above and below the horse. No charioteer or driver is depicted, and the field bears no inscription or legend. The overall composition is characteristic of the 'Yarmouth C' type attributed to an unidentified Brittonic tribe of southern Britain. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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