Gallo Belgic Ambiani 1st Century BC Gold Stater

Gallo Belgic Ambiani 1st Century BC Gold Stater

Uniface type

Plain/Sinuous horse right

ABC16; 18mm, 6.19g

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Well struck on a broad flan, this example showing more detail than usual for this type thus used as the plate coin in Spink COE for many years (1996-).

Provenance

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

M Vosper, 1996, found Colton Holbeach, Spink COE 2006 plate coin (11) VA 54-1

This coin comes with a previous label.

Iron Age Gallo Belgic & early uninscribed coins are found all over Britain. These coins were made in Gaul then imported during the 2nd-1st Century BC, before coin manufacture was established in Britain. The introduction of Britain’s own coinage in around 60-50 BC was in an uninscribed form to start with, only later did rulers realise the potential of inscriptions.