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Description: | This is an Iron Age silver coin produced in NW France in c. 70-60BC. Coins of this type are attributed to the Suessiones tribe. The type is a slight variant of the "et au sanglier" type and published in the standard catalogues: Delestree and Tache (2002), Nouvel Atlas des Monnaies Gauloises, volume I, no. 197; Scheers (1977), Traite de Numismatique Celtique, volume II, cf. no. 328. It shows a male head on the front and a stylised lion on the back and was derived from early coins issued in the south of France and, ultimately from Roman silver coins. The head and the lion on the present example are slightly more stylised than those illustrated in the standard catalogues cited above.The coin was later gilded and adapted for use as a pendant by the addition of a suspension loop and three circular collets for stone inlays in the lower half. The collets consist of silver-gilt strips set on edge with rings of twisted filigree wire round their bases. The largest in the centre contains a green glass setting (perhaps a reused bead), while the one on the left contains a red garnet cabochon and the one on the right is damaged and empty. The style of the collets and the appearance and choice of colour and material of the two remaining inlays are all consistent with Early Medieval jewellery. The settings are probably continental, Frankish additions of around the 6th-7th century. Iron Age coins were sometimes reused as pendants in Frankish jewellery, e.g. the example on a chatelaine from near Mainz, Germany, in the collection of the British Museum (registration no. PE 1873,0805.5).
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