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Description: | A gold half-stater of the continental Iron Age, 3rd-2nd century BC.Someone from Chris Rudd has identified the coin as a Hesperange type of half-stater, class 1, around 2nd century BC and sometimes referred to as a hemistatere a la fleur, which are sometime attributed to the province of Namur in southeast Belgium. References: BN 10280, Scheers/GB fig 41, 42; Sills 161, 162; DT 31. It was probably struck from worn, rusty dies, but the obverse probably contained the head of Apollo facing right, and a biga on the reverse.An expert at the British Museum has provided a less precise identification, but notes that the size is indicative of a stater, rather than a half-stater, though it is too light in weight to be a stater, unless very worn and debased. It is however in the early Gaulish tradition, and Sills dates the Esperange types to the late 3rd century BC.
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