Record ID: KENT-D28379
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Iron Age copper-alloy / base silver Siculo-Punic coin, minted in Carthage or Sicily between c. 320 and 280 BC. Obverse: Head of Tanit left wearing wreath and corn ears. Reverse: Horse standing right in front of date palm. The coin is 15.4mm in diameter, 2.6mm thick and weighs 1.96 grams. This coin does have a silvery appearance and billon coins for this issue have been noted (three are in the Bardo Museum in Tunisia - see Alexandropoulos 2007, p. 367 (cited below). Note also that the dating of this issue is not known for certain and some scholars have dated the ser…
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-3C0C88
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy coin of Ebusus (Ibiza), dating to the late 2nd to early 1st century BC, perhaps c.210-190 BC. Obverse: Bes facing forwards holding hammer and snake. Reverse: Bull butting left. As SNG Morcom 15; see also KENT-0414B2.
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonea Grange', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-395484
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Greek copper-alloy coin (uncertain denomination), minted in Syracuse, Sicily, between 317 BC and 289 BC, during the reign of Agathocles. Ref.: Seaby no. 1339 (Plant 1979: 81, no. 1339). Although an unusual find for Britain, the patination on this coin is consistent with it having been lost in this country in antiquity. Traces of an unidentified black substance are also visible on the surface and there is a casting sprue. Dimensions: 20.9mm diameter, 2.9mm thick. Weight: 5.57g.
Created on: Friday 3rd May 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Radnage', grid reference and parish protected.