East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Savernake Forest Gold Stater *Extremely Rare*

East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Savernake Forest Gold Stater

Extremely Rare

ABC 2091 (plate coin), 18mm, 4.50g

An excellent example of this very base gold type.

Obverse

Plain.

Reverse

Skinny horse of three large pellets and curved lines right, pellet mane. Solar spiral above. Large wheel below. Torc-like motif in front. Various pellets around.

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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 27, no 75 (1997). Found Milton Lilbourne, Wilts (1996) CCI 97.1008 ABC Plate coin    VA1526-1 variant.

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.