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Gold Stater Waldingfield
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC |
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| Weight | 6.2 g |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised and abstracted head derived from a classical prototype, rendered in the characteristic Celtic La Tène artistic tradition. The facial features are dissolved into a series of flowing curvilinear forms, with prominent sweeping lines suggesting hair or laurel wreath elements fanning across the upper field. A bold sinuous line delineates the profile of the face, with a pronounced curving nose and chin visible at right. The entire composition is executed with confident, deeply impressed strokes typical of late Iron Age British Celtic craftsmanship, with no inscriptions or legends present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Waldingfield type takes its name from Great Waldingfield in Suffolk, where a significant concentration of these coins has been recovered — consistent with the Trinovantes' territorial heartland north of the Thames. Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC disrupted tribal political structures considerably, and coinage of this period may reflect both the economic pressure of tribute demands and the accelerated need for élite gift exchange to maintain alliances under Roman threat.
Van Arsdell 1462 is a relatively tightly defined variety within the broader uninscribed gold stater tradition, predating the named dynastic issues that would follow under Addedomaros in the following decades.