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Gold Stater Vertical Cloak
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylised Celtic disjointed horse motif facing right, heavily abstracted from the classical charioteer-and-horse type of the Macedonian prototype. The upper field displays scattered crescentic and lentoid pellet motifs representing the vestigial charioteer and wheel elements. The lower half of the flan is dominated by a prominent horizontal band of opposed triangles, each filled with pellets, forming a decorative frieze identified as the 'vertical cloak' or apron element characteristic of this issue. To the left, two vertical lines terminating in pellets are visible, likely remnants of the chariot wheel. The reverse field is otherwise plain, with no legend or inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued by the Atrebates around the time of Caesar's first British expedition, these staters circulated among a tribal network that had direct — and politically fraught — contact with Rome. Commius, the Atrebatic king installed by Caesar as a client ruler, initially cooperated with the invasion before defecting and leading guerrilla resistance against Roman forces. Whether coins of this type passed through his treasury is impossible to say, but the political turbulence of the 50s BC is the immediate backdrop for this series.
The "vertical cloak" classification within Sills's die study distinguishes this type from related Atrebatic staters by a specific arrangement of the chariot field — a distinction invisible without direct comparison to reference dies.