Regini 1st Century BC Petersfield Cernunnos Silver Unit *Excessively Rare* Repaired
£1,250.00
Regini
1st Century BC Petersfield Cernunnos Silver Unit
Excessively Rare
(repaired)
ABC 686
14x10mm, 1.05g
Obverse
Facing head, possibly wearing a sacerdotal headdress of antlers and sun-wheel (or boar). Wheel above, between antlers.
Reverse
Three-tailed horse left. Large pellet below. Various pellets and rings around.
Comments
Rudd (ABC) attributes this coin to the Regni. See “Horned god or druid priest?”.
3 in the Celtic Coin Index (CCI 08.9761, CCI 09.3297, CCI 83.0251).
1 on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
The above counts include duplicates.
Findspots: West Sussex (Chilgrove, Chichester), Hampshire (Petersfield).
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 FPL 103, no 17. Found Chilgrove, Chichester, West Sussex.
This coin comes with a previous label.
Regni/Regini
The Regni, sometimes referred to as the Regini, appear to have occupied what is today the western portion of West Sussex – their tribal civitas probably underlying what became the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). Regnian coinage is characterised not only by its sheer diversity, but also scarcity. Indeed, many of the key types are extremely rare. This is perhaps exemplified best by many of the tribe’s quarter-staters, of which no fewer than forty varieties are listed by ABC.
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