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Unique ID: HAMP-3BB786
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
A gold Early Uninscribed 'O' - 'Geometric' type Iron Age quarter stater dating to the 1st-century BC (c. 65 - c. 58 BC; Hobbs 414ff.; VA 1225). Such coins have been ascribed to the south-western Durotriges.
This coin is still to be assigned a CCI number.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 65 BC
Date to: Circa 58 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 13.9 mm
Width: 11 mm
Thickness: 2.6 mm
Weight: 1.2 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 18th September 2010
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Other reference: E2940; J2
Primary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Quarter stater (gold)
Ruler/issuer: Uninscribed
Tribe: Uninscribed
Geographic provenance: British Not defined (early uninscribed)
British Museum Catalogue type: 414x
Van Arsdell Type (VA): 1225.
Obverse description: Miscellaneous x, below crescent l, to left pellet-ring f
Obverse inscription: None
Reverse description: Line a, to right miscellaneous y & miscellaneous z, to left miscellaneous y & miscellaneous 28
Reverse inscription: None
Degree of wear: Slightly worn: very fine
Status: Regular
4 Figure: SU7535
Four figure Latitude: 51.109398
Four figure longitude: -0.930036
1:25K map: SU7535
1:10K map: SU73NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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