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Description: | TREASURE CASE : 2006 T494 Two uninscribed gold 'staters' produced during the late Iron Age. The style and design of the coins identifies them as locally-produced types that are traditionally associated with the Corieltavi, a people thought to have inhabited an area equivalent to modern North East Midlands, Humberside and parts of Yorkshire. Both coins would have been struck during the mid/late first century BC. The coins can be described as follows: 1. Gold stater, 'Domino' type; cf. VA 829-4 Although the published example of this type of coin (VA 829-4) is described as being 'plated' (i.e. an ancient copy made by adding gold plate to the surface of a base-metal core), the weight of the present example (5.38g) is closer to that of more recent non-plated (or regular) examples recorded by the Celtic Coin Index (e.g. CCI no. 930223). 2. Gold stater, 'Kite' type; VA 825-1 / BMC3181 VA = R Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain (London, 1989) BMC = R Hobbs, British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum (London, 1996) The coins satisfy the terms of the Treasure Act with regard to age and metal content. They are certainly more than 300 years old and appear to have precious metal contents in excess of the 10% threshold. The circumstances of discovery, as reported, suggest that both coins formed part of a single hoard buried together in antiquity. Furthermore the deposition of these coins may be associated with the deposition of the earlier hoard (Treasure Annual Report 2002: no.184; 2003: no.354). This find constitutes a prima facie case of treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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