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Description: | A very interesting contemporary Iron Age copy of a stater of Dubnovellaunos, BM 2497. This object represents the base metal core, presumably a copper alloy, of what would have been a plated coin. It is dark brown in colour with a fair representation of an animal and wheel on the reverse, but the 'raised bands' on the obverse are merely crudely incised lines. It is interesting that the obverse also shows faint striated lines where someone may have been 'testing' the coin. There is also quite a regular V shaped chip in the coin, but it is hard to discern whether this was deliberate or accidental damage. At 4.44g it is lighter than its genuine gold counterpart.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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