Eastern 1st Century BC Chesterford Stag Silver Half Unit *Excessively Rare*

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Eastern 1st Century BC Chesterford Stag Silver Half Unit Excessively Rare

Name: Eastern 1st Century BC Chesterford Stag Silver Half Unit *Excessively Rare*
SKU: IAC359
Price: 2250.00 GBP
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£2,250.00

Code: IAC359

Eastern 1st Century BC Chesterford Stag Silver Half Unit

Excessively rare

ABC 2303, 11mm, 0.47g

Obverse

Sinuous animal right, single fore and rear legs, head turned back, two prominent antlers, tail raised above rump.

Reverse

Small horse prancing left, two large ears, corded tail raised. Trilobe motif above. Beaded sun ing below.

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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.

A Gillis PT (Oct 2007)

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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