Rights Holder: Sussex Archaeological Society
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Unique ID: SUSS-96FAC2
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Notes:
The lyre is found on coins of the central Armorican tribes from modern-day Brittany. However this is a local variant struck by the Atrebatic tribe modelled on continental coins and dating to the mid-1st century BC. The wider Bean type to which this coin belongs (QsT1) has a geographical focus on West Sussex (Bean 2000, 70). Photograph and dimensions supplied by finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: 50 BC
Date to: 30 BC
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 1.24 g
Diameter: 14.9 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 27th January 2010
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Other reference: CCI 10.0872
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Unit (silver)
Ruler/issuer: Uninscribed
Secondary ruler/issuer:
Geographic provenance: British Southern
Obverse description: Head with luxurient curled hair and fillet around the brow facing right in line pellet circle
Obverse inscription: None
Reverse description: Horse going right with spoked wheel with large hub above and lyre below; part of an S is visible in front of the horse
Reverse inscription: None
Die axis measurement: 9 o'clock
Degree of wear: Worn: fine
No coin references available.
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bean, S.C. | 2000 | The Coinage of the Atrebates and Regni | Oxford | Oxford University School of Archaeology | 70 |