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Description: | The Coins All sixteen coins belong to a class of Iron Age coins known as 'Flat Linear I' potins. While the majority of Iron Age coins were produced by striking a gold, silver or bronze blank between a pair of dies, potins were instead cast in moulds and made from a lead/tin-rich bronze alloy. Although highly abstract, it is clear that their designs copied earlier types which depicted a human head and a butting bull, originally derived from the coinage of the Greek city of Massalia (Marseille, France).Flat Linear potins were produced in Kent and the south-east in the mid first century BC. The coins can be summarised as follows:Flat Linear I potin; head right, bull right; Type VA 1251. Weight: 1.35g Registered as CCI 08.62872. Weight: 0.78g (broken) Registered as CCI 08.6288Flat Linear I potin; head right, bull left; Type VA 1293. Weight: 1.81g Registered as CCI 08.62894. Weight: 1.99g Registered as CCI 08.62905. Weight: 1.68g Registered as CCI 08.62916. Weight: 1.74g Registered as CCI 08.62927. Weight: 1.62g Registered as CCI 08.62938. Weight: 1.86g Registered as CCI 08.6294Flat Linear I potin; head left, bull right; Type VA 1319. Weight: 1.88g Registered as CCI 08.629510. Weight: 1.37g Registered as CCI 08.629611. Weight: 1.72g Registered as CCI 08.629712. Weight: 1.48g Registered as CCI 08.629813. Weight: 1.55g Registered as CCI 08.6299Flat Linear I potin; head left, bull left; Type VA 13314. Weight: 2.28g Registered as CCI 08.6300Flat Linear I potin; uncertain type (VA 125 etc)15. Weight: 0.52g (broken) Registered as CCI 08.630116. Weight: 0.38g (fragment) Registered as CCI 08.6302VA = Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain, London, 1989 CCI = Celtic Coin Index, Oxford & London Age, numberThe present find easily satisfies the terms of the Treasure Act with regard to their age, metal and number.The coins are clearly more than 300 years old and there are more than ten base metal coins.The type and reported circumstances of discovery strongly suggest that these coins formed a single group at the time of their burial in antiquity.I would conclude that the present coins should be regarded as a prima facie case of treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996).
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