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Description: | Iron Age gold coin: Continental uninscribed gallo-belgic Aa quarter stater. Report by Dr P.R. Sealey, Colchester & Ipswich Museums. The coin weighs 1.88 grammes, and measures 14.9 by 15.4 millimetres. The obverse shows a beardless laureate head to right, with a horse to right on the reverse. The edges of both obverse and reverse are worn smooth but otherwise the condition is very fair, and that is reflected in the high weight. The weight and size establish the coin as a quarter-stater. Coins such as these are Gallo-Belgic A, the earliest significant stratum of Iron Age coinage in Britain (Allen 1961, 100-102). With face and horse facing right, the coin belongs to the stream of Gallo-Belgic A known as Gallo-Belgic Aa (ibid., 100). The small neat curls and rounded face show it is part of the Aa2 grouping defined by Sills (2003, 127-9). The start date of Gallo-Belgic A is now thought to lie towards the beginning of the second century BC (Haselgrove 1999, 127). When these coins first reached Britain from Gaul is another matter of course. But once here they remained in circulation long after they had been withdrawn in Gaul (Haselgrove 1993, 35-6), until the time of the Gallic Wars (Sills 2003, 214-15). The length of time they were in circulation accounts for the level of wear on so many examples from Britain. references Allen, D.F., 1961. 'The origins of coinage in Britain: a reappraisal', in S.S. Frere (ed.), Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain (University of London Institute of Archaeology Occasional Paper 11) (London), 97-308 Haselgrove, C.C., 1993. 'The development of British Iron Age coinage', Numis. Chron. 153, 31-63 Haselgrove, C.C., 1999. 'The development of Iron Age coinage in Belgic Gaul', Numis. Chron. 159, 111-68 Sills, J., 2003. Gaulish and Early British Gold Coinage (London) | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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