Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-622484
Object type certainty: Certain
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A very worn cast copper-alloy Iron Age Thurrock type potin, c.125-50 BC. There is active corrosion on both faces and it remains uncertain if the coin is inscribed or precisely which direction the bull on the reverse type faces. It is most closely paralleled in Hobbs nos. 666-667.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 125 BC
Date to: Circa 50 BC
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.25 g
Diameter: 18.12 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2012
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SMR reference number: SEY 017
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Potin (Cast bronze)
Ruler/issuer: Uninscribed
Tribe: Uninscribed
Geographic provenance: British Not defined (early uninscribed)
British Museum Catalogue type: 0x
Obverse description: Head in high relief left
Reverse description: Bull butting left? No surviving trace of lettering above.
Die axis measurement: 4 o'clock
Status: Regular
Status qualifier: Certain
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