Record ID: LON-D896E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Iron Age Gallo-Belgic (Belgium and northeast France) cast copper-alloy potin of the Suessiones tribe, dating from c.60BC - 20BC. ABC 85, BMC Celtic Coins III, 444-447; Delestree and Tache I, 530-531A. A Suessiones Eye Boar cast copper-alloy unit, of an unknown ruler. Obverse: Head right Reverse: Eye-and -Boar motif, neck torc and pellets below. Dimensions: diameter: 18.24mm; thickness: 4.38mm; weight: 4.44g.
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-53605C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age, 1st century BC copper alloy flat linear class II, Holman G2, potin dating to 60-45 BC. Holman (2016:10) writes "Until recently, Group G coins were still regarded as mostly dating from after the mid-first century BC. However, the discovery of four such coins at the oppidum of Corent, France indicates that they were probably already in existence by c.50 BC and it has been suggested that these, along with a few Group F types, may have been taken back to Gaul by Caesar's soldiers. If correct, this pushes the dating of Group G back to at least the mid-50s BC - and this for…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
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