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1/4 Stater 'Dobunnic B' - Corio
| Issuer | Dobunni tribe |
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| Year | 30 BC - 15 BC |
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| Diameter | 12 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain, lightly textured field bearing the retrograde or irregular Latin legend COR in the upper centre, attributable to the name of the Dobunnic ruler Corio. The three characters are rendered in a native Celtic lapidary style, boldly incuse against a largely blank flan. The surrounding field is undecorated, consistent with the abbreviated inscriptional quarter-stater coinage of the late Iron Age Dobunni. The irregular, slightly chipped flan edge is characteristic of hammered Celtic coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse prancing to the left, depicted in the abstract, fragmented manner characteristic of late Iron Age British coinage. The horse's body is rendered with curvilinear limbs and a segmented torso, surrounded by a field filled with pellets, annulets, and concentric ring ornaments. Above the horse, a schematic human head or rider element is discernible, rendered in typical Dobunnic artistic convention. The overall design is derived from distorted Macedonian stater prototypes, transformed into a distinctly native decorative composition. No legend or inscription appears on the reverse. |
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