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COIN
Unique ID: BH-481C12
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A late Iron Age gold coin: Uninscribed North-Eastern Gold - 'Ferriby' Type stater; British Museum nos. 3152-3166/Van Arsdell no. 811. Measures 19.9mm in diameter, 2.8mm thick and weighs 5.75g.
Class:
Stater
Sub class: Uninscribed North-Eastern Gold - 'Ferriby' Type
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 45 BC
Date to: Circa 10 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.8 mm
Weight: 5.75 g
Diameter: 19.9 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 10/38 - 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Stater (gold)
Ruler/issuer: Uninscribed
Tribe: Corieltavi
Geographic provenance: British North Eastern
British Museum Catalogue type: 3148-78x
Van Arsdell Type (VA): 811
Ancient British Coins (ABC): 1743
Obverse description: Line with two crescents on end (one on flan), crossing wreath-like motif; triangle of pellets below crescent, one with swirl around; 'V-shaped moulding to right; two hand-like motifs on opposite side.
Obverse inscription: No legend.
Reverse description: Abstract horse left; hand-like motif below head; star below body; above, line with crescentic terminal, pellet either side.
Reverse inscription: No legend
Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
Coin references
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1 comment
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Loyd Wix wrote @ 20:43:07 on the 19th April 2010.
Two comments to add to this record:
1. Julian has photographed the coin according to the typical BM orientation. However if orientated 'correctly' the abstract design of the obverse clearly becomes a head (devolved bust of Apollo). The line represents the 'neck line' the with the two cresents becoming the mouth. The pellet with the swirl then clearly becomes the eye. The two 'V' shaped element either side of the eye are the nose and the forehead. The wreath like element and the two hand motifs are the hair.
2. In correspondence with John Sills regarding this coin, he was unable to find an exact match for either reverse or obverse. He is of the opinion that the reverse is definitely unrecorded (until now), although he cannot be absolutely sure about the obverse which in his opinion is the lower half of the design.
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