Corieltavi 50 BC – AD 50 Silver Unit Proto Boar

Corieltavi 50 BC – AD 50 Silver Unit

Proto Boar

Boar with curly tail and spear in shoulder, solar rosette above, S below boar / Horse left with large pelletal sun ring above. Pellet in ring below

Scarce

ABC1779, S396, 15mm, 1.46g

ex Graham Slater Collection.

The Corieltavi tribe occupied modern day Lincolnshire and parts of adjoining Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With an extensive series of inscribed and uninscribed coins in both gold and silver this makes for a very interesting series to collect.
The Scyphate gold quarter staters are worthy of mention, very thin and deeply dished with no parallel in the rest of the Iron Age series, presumably a very localised issue but why?

Some of the later inscribed staters bear long and wonderful names, there is some suggestion that these may be the names of two individuals, perhaps joint kings or the introduction of moneyers displayed on coins. ‘Volisios Dumnovellaunos’ is my favourite, it puts our modern day names to shame, ‘Bob’ not quite having the same ring.