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Description: | A hoard of 4 Iron Age staters and 1 Roman denarius.
Ian Leins writes:
Four of the five coins delivered to the British Museum in November 2007 are Iron Age coins. These appear to represent addenda to another hoard (2006 T494) found at the same site.
Several other groups of coins have been found in the same field and those adjacent to it (see 2006 T148 and 2002 T92; 2003 T401; 2004 T468; 2006 T26; 2007 T48; 2007 T597). The fifth coin referred to above is probably related to the Roman hoard and is considered separately (see 2008 T153).
The four Iron Age coins comprise three gold ??staters?? and one silver ??unit?? all of which date to the late first century BC or early first century AD. Coins of these types were produced locally and are therefore associated with the Corieltavi, a tribe who are thought to have inhabited the modern north-east Midlands, Humberside and parts of Yorkshire in the late Iron Age. The four coins form a convincing hoard group or votive assemblage.
The coins are:
1. Gold plated copper alloy ??South Ferriby?? type stater; VA 811.23 = BMC 3149
This coin is an ancient plated imitation. It is made of a base metal (copper alloy) and the surface is plated with gold. Plated imitations are common in the Iron Age. Diameter: 21 mm; Weight: 5.23 g. This coin has now been registered as CCI 08.6254.
2. Gold ??Kite?? type stater; VA 825.09 = BMC3184
Diameter: 19 mm; Weight: 5.33 g. Registered as CCI 08.6255.
3. Gold plated copper alloy VOLISIOS DVMNOCOVEROS stater; VA 978.02 = BMC 3337
This coin is also an ancient plated imitation. Diameter: 19.2 mm; Weight: 5.27 g. Registered as CCI 08.6257.
4. Silver AVN COST unit; VA 914.03 = BMC 3261
Diameter: 14.7 mm; Weight: 0.74 g. Registered as CCI 08.6256.
VA = R Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain (London, 1989)
BMC = R Hobbs, British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum (London, 1996)
CCI = Celtic Coin Index, Oxford and London | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Collins, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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