East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Facing Horses Silver Unit *Excessively Rare*
£1,250.00
East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Facing Horses Silver Unit
Two horses rearing face-to-face, each with long mane curled up behind neck. Pellet in ring and smaller horse between.
Horse left. Small horse upside down above. Boar below.
Excessively rare, chipped.
Inspiring Celtic design. 2 known, while ABC attributes this type to the East Wiltshire tribal group, we think it is from the Berkshire group.
ABC 2116 (plate coin); 16mm, 1.09g
Provenance
This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins
M Vosper May 1996. Found Wiltshire 1996. ABC plate coin
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.
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