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Description: | Iron Age gold coin of the Cantii Tribe, measuring 11.09mm in diameter and 2.03mm in thickness.
Early British uninscribed D 'Cheriton' type quarter stater dating from the late 2nd to mid 1st century AD.
Van Arsdell type 143-1.
The obverse depicts a crescent with vertical projections along its upper side, with three pellets below it to the left, and two irregular shapes below the crescent to the right. The reverse Has a straight line intersected by a wavy line with three projections at its base. To one side of the wavy line is a crescent containing two pellets, to the other side of the wavy line is a miscellaneous angular shape.
There are several examples of this coin type listed in the Celtic Coin Index, for example CCI 000705, CCI 981006, CCI 951427 and CCI 991712. Also see Hobbs page 52 and Plate 6 numbers 129-136. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -125
-50 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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