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COIN

Unique ID: LON-048C36

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Small bronze unit. Uninscribed South-Eastern AE unit (Hobbs 1996, 149). Diameter 12 mm; weight 1.47g. Obv. Wolf? l, above ?, above tail ring, below pellet, pellet border. Rev. horse r., foreleg raised, above animal ‘i’, below ring, above tail 2 pellet-in-rings and pellet, pellet border. Often described as a Kentish type on the basis of its distribution pattern, and dated c. 50-30 BC by Van Arsdell (1989, 95). Hobbs (1996, 149) notes an example in the BM Collection from ‘the site of Old London Bridge’ a little upstream from Chamber’s Wharf.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Ante AD 30

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.47 g
Diameter: 12 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered

Coin data (numismatics)

Denomination: Unit (silver)
Obverse description: Wolf? l, above ?, above tail ring, below pellet, pellet border
Reverse description: horse r., foreleg raised, above animal ‘i’, below ring, above tail 2 pellet-in-rings and pellet, pellet border.

Coin references

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Spatial metadata

Region: London (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)
To be known as: Bermondsey

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hobbs, R.	1996	British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum	London	British Museum Press

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Recording Institution: LON
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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