Unique ID: IARCH-654DBD
Workflow status: Published
Penzance II
Broad period: IRON AGE
Last ruler: Uninscribed
Last Reece period: Period 1 Pre-Claudian and Iron Age (Pre AD 41)
Date from: 60 BC
Date to: 20 BC
Terminal reason: Incomplete information
Period | Ruler | Denomination | Geog. area | From | To | Quantity | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IRON AGE | Uninscribed | Stater (gold) | Southern | 60 BC | 20 BC | 0 |
Coin data quality rating: Poor (Grade 1)
De Jersey (2015) writes: "Recorded by Allen (1960a, 289), with understandable reservations. He reported that G.C. Brooke had seen five British Q staters in the possession of a Mr Tooley of Wallingford, from whom they passed to Mr A.K. Gilbert; Brooke understood that they had been found at Penzance. Allen was doubtful about this provenance and suggested (ibid.) that Wallingford was a much more likely findspot. However he acknowledged that a British Q stater apparently from Penzance was recorded in the Ransom sale (Sotheby 13 March 1925, lot 161). Haselgrove (1987, 314 no. 58) takes the sale evidence plus the existence of at least two other British Q from Cornwall to suggest that the find might be genuine after all.
One of the five Qa (ABC 485) staters which Brooke saw at the British Museum was CCI 68.0050 (5.46 g), which has been mistakenly provenanced to Ryarsh (148); it remains the case that Wallingford is a more likely findspot than Penzance, but it is probably now impossible to confirm one way or the other. The record as a whole is unreliable and we can do little more than say that there may have been a small find of British Q staters in the vicinity of Penzance. Penhallurick (2009, 182) confuses this possible hoard - which he also deems as suspect - with the small hoard of continental bronze recorded from Penzance in 1888."
Doubtful status
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 1925 - Thursday 1st January 1925
Legacy hoard number: 2684
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
No archaeological context available.