East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Savernake Wheel Gold Quarter Stater *Excessively Rare*

East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Savernake Wheel Gold Quarter Stater

Abstracted head of Apollo right (wreath design). Crescents below. Pelleted spike.

Horse right, double tail, strap around belly, pellet-in-ring motifs on shoulder and haunch. Solar spiral above. Seven-spoked wheel below.

Excessively Rare

A wonderful example with much clear detail, a full horse which is seldom seen.

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ABC 2101; 11mm, 1.13g

Evans: M3 (1890, p. 457, pl. M).

Allen Type: British Qc.

Van Arsdell Classification: Atrebatic B, Atrebatic Abstract Fractional Gold Staters, Apollo Head Variation Types.

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins

C Rudd PT , no 2714. Found Hinton Waldrist, Oxon 1995. CCI 95.2903  VA 246

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

‘East Wiltshire’ Tribe

Although Dobunnic coinage holds sway over much of Wiltshire, the central and eastern parts of the county appear to have been home to a different coin-issuing group for at least part of the late 1st century BC. While Derek Allen first noted the possibility of this polity’s existence in 1971, only as a consequence of the important work done by archaeologist Paul Robinson several years later (published in 1977 within BNJ 47) was this confirmed from a numismatic perspective. Previously, these coins had been féted as irregular issues of the Dobunni, a view held by both Allen and the collector R.P. Mack.

Important from a chronological perspective is the fact that no coins of the East Wiltshire group are inscribed, a feature which suggests they probably date to the end of the 1st century BC.