East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Bagendon Beasts Silver Half Unit *Excessively Rare*

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East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Bagendon Beasts Silver Half Unit Excessively Rare

Name: East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Bagendon Beasts Silver Half Unit *Excessively Rare*
SKU: IAC347
Price: 995.00 GBP
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£995.00

Code: IAC347

East Wiltshire c.50-35 BC Bagendon Beasts Silver Half Unit

Excessively Rare

ABC 2140, 10mm, 0.31g

Obverse

Two opposed animals. Two lines of pellets in centre intersected by large curve. Lyre shapes around (curves, lines and ellipses).

Reverse

Double-tailed annulate horse left, pelleted tails. Two small rings and cogwheel sun in ring (large pellet in ring motif) above. Various small rings and pellets around (small crescent in front, large pellet below).

Comments

Evans: (1890, p. 468).

Allen Type: O.

Van Arsdell Classification: Dobunni, Irregular Silver Issues, Unclassified. “Four unusual types [VA 1170, VA 1171, VA 1180, VA 1185, with many die varieties] have been identified by Allen as an irregular Dobunnic coinage. Though unlikely, these might represent a coinage of a separate tribal group centred in Wiltshire. This now appears to be an over-interpretation of insufficient data [as] recent finds have occurred in other parts of Dobunnic territory [than the Eastern fringe]. In any event, the coins are unusual and probably represent local issues of some sort, not necessarily those of a separate tribal group. Stylistically it appears to come after Dobunnic B and before Dobunnic G (15BC-30).”

6 in the Celtic Coin Index.
2 on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
1 in the British Museum (1919,0213.630).

Provenance

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

A Gillis FPL 6 (Jan 1994) VA1185

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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