East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Charlbury Beasts Silver Half Unit *Excessively Rare*
£1,650.00
East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Charlbury Beasts Silver Half Unit
Excessively Rare, 4 known
ABC 2137, 10mm, 0.31g
Obverse
Two opposed animals (two large curves). Lyre shapes around (smaller crescents and curves).
Reverse
Double-tailed annulate horse left. Pelletal sun ring above. Pellet-in-ring motifs in front, below and behind.
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 63, no 54 (2002). Found Witney, Oxon. CCI 01.1411 ABC Plate coin VA1180
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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