Back-to-back crescents with arcs at the points, pellets between crescent arms, projecting chevron (three or five lines) and pellet design inside, on plain field.

Small annulate horse right with mane, neck either solid or of short upturned bars, and spindly legs. Spiral sun (wheel-like clockwise whorl) above. Branch (frond) below. Ringed pellet in front. Inscription around.

Rare

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ABC 2511; 19mm, 5.53g

Evans: XIV.1 (1864, p. 367, pl. XIV).
Evans: XIV.3 (1864, p. 370, pl. XIV).

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian K, Earlier Dynastic Issues, Addedomaros Third Coinage. VA 1635 – 01: Pellets and 5 lines in crescents.

Sills DK 484 (4 obverse, 12 reverse dies): North Thames Coinage; Type: Addedomaros; Staters: Class 1b – Shell Whorl. Uses an obverse die from Shell Inner Circle (ABC 2508). The reverse is similar to Shell Inner Circle without the circles around the obverse or around the whorl, and less carefully engraved letters.

Addedomaros could be Trinovantian or Catuvellaunian, or a ruler of both. His staters are similar to the Essex Banded, north-eastern coins with Cantian influence. They follow the sequence Shell – Crescent Cross – Spiral. The frond on Addedomaros Shell and coins of Dubnovellaunos in Essex and Tasciovanos may be a family emblem.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British La (Whaddon Chase) – British Lb (Westbury) – Addedomaros – Dubnovellaunos – Tasciovanos.

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins

Spink PT June 1994 VA 1635-1

This coin comes with a previous label.

Addedomaros (c. 45–25/10 BC?)

Addedomaros appears to have been the first ruler in the north Thames sequence to place his name upon coins, perhaps a contemporary of his southern counterpart, Commios. His earliest coins, probably struck during the earlier 30s BC, are intriguingly of very similar general appearance to the uninscribed ‘Wonersh’ staters of the Atrebates – though their reverses bear a variation on the Latin inscription ‘ADDEDIIDOM’ (ABC 2514/BMC 2390–94). Some coins attributed to Addedomaros have been undertaken on stylistic grounds rather than their explicitly bearing his name, such as the increasingly common ‘Addedomaros flower’ quarter staters (ABC 2526/BMC 2416). His coins are generally found in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex, though a number were found in the recent ‘Near Blythburgh’ hoard, buried in north east Suffolk. He is potentially the occupant of the so-called ‘Lexden tumulus’, a high-status Late Iron Age barrow burial from near Colchester, dating c. 15–10 BC. Amongst other things, the tomb contained a silver medal depicting the Roman emperor Augustus, a table and pieces of monumental statuary in bronze – suggesting its occupant was well engaged with trade networks and contacts from the Mediterranean world.

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Bare headed bust left/Voided long cross

Godric / Colchester

S1151; 19mm, 1.38g

A rough find area provenance will be supplied with this coin.

Æthelred II ‘The Unready’ – 978-1013/1014-1016: The eldest son of Eadgar, Æthelred became king at the mere age of 12 following the brutal murder of his half-brother Edward. Young and easy to manipulate, he came to depend on his councillors for their prudent advice – an aspect in which they badly let him down. Though his reign is noted for its economic reforms and a high standard for the English coinage, it was marred by Scandinavian raids, periods of acute social instability and famine. Initially adopting a policy of paying the invaders to go away, Æthelred abruptly U-turned in 1002 and massacred many ethnic Danes resident in England. This policy backfired spectacularly, actually causing more Scandinavians to take up arms against him. Displaced from the throne in 1013 by Swein Forkbeard, he briefly returned to rule for a second time in 1014 after the latter’s untimely death – only to die himself shortly afterwards.

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Bronze Socketed Axehead c700-600 BC

Found Hampshire, UK

87x40x37mm; 177.00g

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Bronze Socketed Axehead c700-600 BC

Found Hampshire, UK

82x36x46mm; 156.40g

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Bronze Plate Brooch 1st Century BC

Unusual design, fine decoration

Found Ipswich, UK

45x34x12mm; 16.61g

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Tinned Bronze Umbonate Brooch

Complete with pin, some blue enamel

2nd/3rd Century AD

Found Stevenage, Herts, 1990. ex Evan-Hart Collection

36x30x12mm; 16.66g

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Bronze Plate Brooch

Hexegon shaped with 6 lugs, blue and red enamel

2nd/3rd Century AD

Found Yorkshire, UK

36x30x8mm; 6.83g

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Bronze Zoomorphic Brooch

Dove in flight, red enamel with white and blue spots on wings and tail

2nd/3rd Century AD

Found Beachy Head, East Sussex, UK

Fine condition

39x20x19mm; 6.05g

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Bronze Zoomorphic Cockrel Statue

associated with the god Mecury

2nd/3rd Century AD

Found Bristol, South Gloucestershire, UK

38x35x16mm; 33.08g

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Silver Finger Ring with Carnelion Stone

Showing figure standing left, holding branch and sceptre

2nd/3rd Century AD

23x25x13mm; 8.79g

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