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COIN
Unique ID: WILT-B432F0
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Hod Hill type stater of the Durotriges dating to c 58 BC-AD 43. The coin is very worn. The obverse depicts a wreath, cloak and crescents. The reverse depicts a disjointed hourse facing left with a rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, many pellets above. Cf ABC 2175 (Rudd, C, 2010, Ancient British Coins, CHRIS RUDD AYLSHAM 2010 p111).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 58 BC
Date to: Circa AD 43
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 2.26 g
Diameter: 19.19 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4490
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Coin data (numismatics)
Denomination: Stater (copper alloy)
Tribe: Durotriges
Geographic provenance: British South Western
Ancient British Coins (ABC): 2175
Obverse description: Wreath, cloak and crescents.
Reverse description: Disjointed horse facing left with rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, many pellets above.
Status: Regular
Coin references
No coin references available.
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Stratford Toney
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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