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Stater - Regni Selsey Stockholm
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 55 BC |
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| Value | 1 Stater |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse advances to the right, rendered in the highly abstracted Celtic artistic idiom, with a distinctive triple-strand tail fanning behind the hindquarters. A spoked wheel device is placed beneath the horse's body. Above, a fragmented and curvilinear element interpreted as the charioteer's arm extends across the upper field. A pellet-in-square symbol appears in the field before the horse, serving as a characteristic identifying device of this Selsey series issue. |
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| Mintage | ND (65 BC - 55 BC) |
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The Selsey coinage is among the earliest struck gold issues from southern Britain, predating Caesar's two expeditions to the island and almost certainly circulating among the Atrebates and Regini without any direct Roman monetary influence. The Stockholm specimen designation refers to a die-linked grouping identified through the Swedish museum's holdings — a reminder of how widely dispersed Celtic British coins had traveled before modern scholarship began reconstructing the series.
ABC 521 sits in a typological sequence that helped numismatists establish the chronology of pre-invasion Gallic-influenced coinage in Britain, with the die work showing clear descent from Gallo-Belgic prototypes imported across the Channel.