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Description: | Gold quarter stater, a good example of a Gallo-Belgic import (listed as 69-1 in Van Arsdell's Celtic Coinage of Britain). These date to c. 50 BC and were produced in fairly large quantities somewhere in Belgica - possibly in the territory of the Morini - from where they were imported, also in fairly large numbers, to Britain. There are about 80 of this type from the UK to date. Most of them tend to be in the south-east, and this seems to be only the third example recorded from Lincolnshire (the others are from Bourne and Sleaford).
Interpretation of the design of these things is particularly difficult - the obverse sometimes looks like a boar, but was probably derived ultimately from a human face in profile, and although it is sometimes referred to as the '3 men in a boat' type any such resemblance is likely to be coincidental. The reverse is even more of a problem, and though sometimes described as 'an oak tree by a stream' that is even more improbable. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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