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Description: | Given the existence of the first coin from the site, the second coin was considered to be potential Treasure and reported to the Finds Liaison Officer for Wiltshire on 4th December 2008. Both coins were brought to the British Museum for examination in December 2008. As a single find at the time of discovery, the first coin cannot be considered to be Treasure under the Treasure Act of 1996.The CoinThe second coin is a silver unit of the Western area of Britain (the area thought to have been inhabited by the people known as the Dobunni during the late Iron Age). It dates to the period about 20 BC to AD 10.Uninscribed Western silver unitWeight 1.05gBMC 2953 = VA 1042Registered as CCI 08.6550VA = Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain, London, 1989BMC = Hobbs, British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum 1996CCI = Celtic Coin Index, Oxford & LondonRecommendationThe presence of the coin found earlier on the same site may indicate that the second coin comes from a hoard and therefore satisfies the criteria of the Treasure Act. The first coin is of a similar type (a Western uninscribed silver unit; BMC 2968 = VA 1049, registered on the CCI as 08.6415) in the same date range as the coin in question. The coins are more than 300 years old and are likely to have silver content in excess of the 10% threshold. It is possible that they formed a single group at the time of burial. However, as the first formed a single find at the time of discovery, it cannot be declared Treasure retrospectively.
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