Eastern 1st Century BC Essex Serpent Silver Unit Excessively Rare

Name: Eastern 1st Century BC Essex Serpent Silver Unit *Excessively Rare*
SKU: IAC358
Price: 3250.00 GBP
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£3,250.00

Code: IAC358

Eastern 1st Century BC Essex Serpent Silver Unit

Excessively rare, 6 known.

ABC 2276, 15mm, 1.20g

Celtic art shown at its best on the obverse of this broad flan silver unit. Minor die clogging on the reverse.

Obverse

Annulate horse right, single fore and rear legs, turned back to face a curled serpent above.

Reverse

Small annulate horse left. Corn ear motif below. Serpent above and behind.

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Comments

Rudd (ABC) puts this coin into an ‘Eastern’ group, which are found in Essex but not comfortably attributed to the Trinovantes or Catuvellauni. Within that, he puts it into a subgroup, ‘Uncertain Silver and Bronze Types’, which are excessively rare and might belong to the Trinovantes, while some have a Gallo-Belgic style and may have been struck around the Gallic War.

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 129, no 43. Found Woburn Sands, Bucks 2012.

This coin comes with a previous label.

Eastern

There are 33 early uninscribed types, found mainly in the eastern part of the North Thames region, especially Essex, which can’t comfortably be attributed either to the Trinovantes of the Catuvellauni. They are mostly extremely rare types – only seven were published by Van Arsdell, and they don’t seem to slot into any of the principle North Thames series. These may be variants struck by the Trinovantes or Catuvellauni or they could have been struck by smaller sub-tribes.

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