Record ID: KENT-36F937
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A continental (Gallic) Iron Age cast bronze unit or potin, probably of the Suessiones, dating to the period c.60-52 BC, Confronted animals type. Obverse: Two confronted goats, a pellet in ring between their heads, within a beaded border. Reverse: A confronted wolf and boar, a pellet in ring between them, within a beaded border. Scheers, 1977: 707-12, no. 185, Class II; Delestree and Tache, 2002: 61, no. 211; Allen, 1995: p. 97, nos. 466-468, S500-501. Potins of this type have a distribution particularly in the Oise and Aisne regions of France, spreading west and with oc…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D2189D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron Age potin of Continental/Belgic import from the Soissons region, c. 60-20 BC. Obverse: profile bust right with bow before. Reverse: boar with pellet-in-annulet and arc of pellets below, possibly depicting a neck torc. Ancient British Coins No 85; BMC Celtic Coins III, 444-447; Delestree and Tache I, 530-531A. SUSS-691646 is another, although incomplete, example found in Sussex.
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarring Neville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-9E2ECA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Late Iron Age Gallo-Belgic (Belgium and northeast France) unit or potin of the Suessiones tribe (north-east of Paris) ; Cottam et al.'s 'Soissons Eye Boar' type. dating from c.60 - 20 BC (ABC 85). The potin is in very good condition and shows very little wear, however one corner of the coin is broken and missing. The die differs to that illustrated in Cottam et. al. (2010; no. 85). This is listed as an extremely rare coin for Britain, but are more common on the Continent.
Created on: Monday 14th November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2016
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