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Description: | The coins consist of seven gold and 161 silver uninscribed staters of types associated with the Durotriges, a people thought to have inhabited an area covering the modern county of Dorset, parts of Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight during the late Iron Age. The gold coins were produced in the early to mid first century BC (about 80 to 60 BC) and the silver coins about 60 to 20 BC. The silver coins are of two types, VA 1235 / BMC 2525 ff and VA 1246 / BMC 2647. They were not cleaned before identification, (although some coins were stuck together with corrosion products and had to be separated by the British Museum's conservation department). Consequently it was not possible to attribute some of the silver staters to one of these two types as surface detail was obscured by corrosion products.The contents of the hoard are summarised below. The weights and CCI numbers are given in the attached appendix. The coins above have been recorded with images for the CCI as CCI nos 10.1166 to 10.1333 inclusive.Gold uninscribed British B 'Chute' staters VA 1205 / BMC 35 7Silver uninscribed staters VA 1235 / BMC 2525 31Silver uninscribed staters VA 1246 / BMC 2647 114Silver uninscribed staters VA 1235 or 1246 / BMC 2525 or 2647 16Total 168VA = Van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain, London, 1989BMC = Hobbs, British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum 1996CCI = Celtic Coin Index (Oxford and online www.finds.org.uk/CCI )RecommendationThese coins satisfy the various criteria of the Treasure Act. They are more than 300 years old and the find comprises two or more coins with precious metal content in excess of the 10% threshold. They are of types that would be expected to be found together and it is likely that they are therefore part of the same find.ConclusionI 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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