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Unique ID: BM-E4ECD6
Object type certainty: Certain
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A gold Iron Age quarter stater of the North Thames region / Trinovantes, dating to the period c.80-50 BC, Clacton Cross type. Obverse: Three men in a boat design. Reverse: Cross of double lines, pellets in the angles. As ABC p. 120, no. 2356; BMC nos. 180-181.
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Coin identified thanks to images supplied by the finder.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 80 BC
Date to: Circa 50 BC
Quantity: 1
Weight: 1.04 g
Diameter: 12 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 1994
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Primary material: Gold
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Denomination: Quarter stater (gold)
Tribe: Trinovantes
Geographic provenance: British Eastern
British Museum Catalogue type: nos. 180-181x
Ancient British Coins (ABC): 2356
Obverse description: Three men in a boat design.
Reverse description: Cross of double lines, pellets in the angles
Status: Regular
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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