East Wilts 50-35 BC Base Gold Stater Savernake Forest type

East Wilts 50-35 BC Base Gold Stater

Savernake Forest

Plain / Skinny horse with pellet mane, solar spiral above and large wheel below, torc like motif in front

Rare. ABC2091, S37, 16mm, 4.19g

ex Graham Slater collection.

The East Wiltshire tribe is a small group striking uninscribed coinage in gold (mainly base) silver & bronze. For many years the East Wilts coins were looked upon as crude contemporary copies of the Dobunnic series but thanks to many more being found by metal detectorists in recent years they are now recognised as much more than this. Found in North & East Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and occasionally in West Berkshire this tribe occupied land sandwiched between the Dobunni to the North & Atrebates to the South both of which must have been friendly neighbours as if not then surely the East Wilts Tribe would never have been as successful as to strike quite a series of coinage.
These coins are rare & on the national market seldom offered for sale however we are based just a few miles from the East Wilts area so some of our local detectorists are lucky enough to find them. This allows us to offer a good stock of East Wilts coins.