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COIN
Unique ID: KENT5314
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A silver Iron Age coin, possibly of Commios. Obverse: a head, facing right, fairly worn, with an inscription of -]MM[-. Reverse: Two horse heads facing away from each other, letters E C above them, between which is another figure, perhaps a horse. Below them is the letter C. The coin is 12mm in diameter.
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Current location of find: With finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Diameter: 12 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 15th February 2003
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: uncertain
Ruler/issuer: Commios
Obverse description: Head facing right.
Obverse inscription: [CO]MM[IOS]
Reverse description: Two horses facing away from each other, letters E C above them, between which is another figure, perhaps a horse. Below them is the letter C.
Reverse inscription: E C C
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Maidstone (District)
Parish or ward: Hollingbourne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8454
Four figure Latitude: 51.255472
Four figure longitude: 0.635464
1:25K map: TQ8454
1:10K map: TQ85SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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