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Description: | A Continental Gallo-Belgic Aa class 5 gold quarter.In writing about find ESS-91F547 Laura Mclean notes that Gallo-Belgic A coins are amoungt the earliest significant stratum of Iron Age coinage in Britain (Allen 1961, 100-102). 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 But once here they remained in circulation long after they had been withdrawn in Gaul (Haselgrove 1993, 35-6), until the time of the Gallic Wars (Sills 2003, 214-15).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.referencesAllen, 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), 97-308Haselgrove, C.C., 1993. 'The development of British Iron Age coinage', Numis. Chron. 153, 31-63Haselgrove, C.C., 1999. 'The development of Iron Age coinage in Belgic Gaul', Numis. Chron. 159, 111-68Sills, J., 2003. Gaulish and Early British Gold Coinage (London)
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