Gold Stater Trefoil

The Corieltauvi occupied a territory roughly corresponding to modern Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, and their coinage — including this stater — was produced without a mint in any conventional sense, likely struck at multiple dispersed locations across their tribal lands. Unlike southern British tribes who absorbed Gallo-Belgic coin types wholesale, the Corieltauvi developed increasingly abstract derivatives over generations, each step further removed from the original Macedonian prototype until the horse and chariot imagery became almost unrecognizable geometry. The trefoil designation refers to a specific pellet arrangement that distinguishes this die grouping within the broader Corieltauvian series.