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Bronze Core Stater South Ferriby Contemporary Counterfeit
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 10 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Reverse description | A lunate horse proceeds to the left, rendered in the abstracted Celtic style typical of Corieltauvian coinage. Above the horse appears a stylised 'anchor' face motif, a distinctive feature of the South Ferriby series. Beneath the horse is a rayed star or sun symbol, and below the horse's head is a pellet rosette. The composition is arranged within an irregular flan, with design elements distributed across the field in the manner characteristic of late Iron Age British staters. |
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| Mintage | ND (45 BC - 10 BC) - VA 811-02: 6-pointed star - ND (45 BC - 10 BC) - VA 811-06: 8-pointed star - |
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Contemporary counterfeits of South Ferriby staters were produced with bronze cores — sometimes with traces of silver plating — by forgers working within or near Corieltauvian territory during the late Iron Age. These were not crude forgeries made far from circulation; the die work frequently mirrors official issues closely enough that detection required physical testing rather than visual inspection. The South Ferriby type itself was already a debased derivative of earlier Gaulish prototypes, which means the "official" coin and its counterfeit existed on a continuum of debasement rather than as clean opposites.