Ambiens / Belgium. Short-edge stater with an "Indian head" design, Class I, Variant 2, ND (first half of the 1st century B.C.).

LT.8597 - DT.158 - Scheers 87-88 - Sills 438 (same corners) G-B Cb1 Class 2a; Gold - 6.5 g - 18 mm - 2 h
MP specimen No. 188 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises,” by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit—acquired from Y. Cellard in 1997.
Wide, oval blank for this type. Obverse is well-centered but somewhat soft. Reverse shows a more vigorous strike. TTB.
The three staters nos. 188–190 in the collection perfectly illustrate the “stylization” or “degeneration”—depending on one’s perspective—of coins struck on short blanks. Minted from the same reverse die, and likely the same obverse die, these three staters (acquired from the same dealer) likely share a common provenance. The Sills 438 (Scheers Collection, ex-Platt) is also from the same dies; it is graded “G-B Cb1 class 2a.”