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Description: | Treasure case 2012 T378: Acquired by Salisbury and South Wiltshire MuseumOne Iron Age pale gold stater, one silver stater and one base silver stater found in close proximity (within a 2-3m radius). The items were found in a ploughed field over several days. From the report of the finder the coins were scattered within the plough soil in a close concentration with no evidence of a container.A further group of a twenty three silver staters were found nearby but in a separate concentration and may or may not be associated (2012 T240). Unfortunately the silver staters form the two groups had become mixed and although the finder has attempted to separate them it is not certain that the two coins now associated with the gold coin were originally associated or if others from 2012 T240 should be associated with it instead.Coin1:British Iron Age gold stater, uninscribed British B (Chute type), 80-60BC, VA 1205; BMC 42; ABC 746.Obv: Devolved head facing right comprising of a wreath running across the centre crossed by a diagonal line from edge to centre, terminating in a lopsided crescent. There is an additional open centred crescent, or ear, in front of the terminal. There are two more open centred crescents in a row above the first. There is a row of hair spikes/curls above wreath and part of a second. At the bottom is a robe formed if multiple parallel angled lines meeting a curved top line with rows of pellets between the angled lines. There is a thicker area (face) in front of ear crescents.Rev: Devolved horse going left with rectangular muzzle and pellet eye, double curved line body and four straight legs formed of lines with pellet terminals. Three pellets above front legs running in a row parallel to the neck. Crab below horses stomach. At least 12 pellets above horses back, the one immediately above the back has 5 fine lines radiating from it. The tail is formed of four near horizontal lines running from the rear leg. The top line extends into a rectangle with an unclear shape above.Coin 2:British Iron Age silver or billon stater, uninscribed South Western (Durotriges), Cranbourne Chase type, 50 BC - AD 10, VA 1235-1; BMC 2525-2546; ABC 2157 and 2169.Obv: Devolved head facing right comprising of a wreath running almost across the centre crossed by a diagonal line from edge to centre, terminating in a crescent. There is an additional open centred crescent, or ear, in front of the terminal. There is a second open centred crescent above the first, then a finer outlined shape, possibly a crescent. Row of hair spikes/curls above wreath. At the bottom is a robe formed if multiple parallel angled lines meeting a curved top line with rows of pellets between the angled lines. There is a thicker area (face) in front of ear crescents.Rev: Devolved horse going left with rectangular muzzle and pellet eye, double curved line body and four straight legs formed of lines with pellet terminals. Tail formed of three lines running at right angles to the rear leg. Twelve pellets in three rows above horse back. Large eye behind horses rump. Zigzag lines in exergue with a pellet in each triangle.Coin 3:Complete. Traces of copper corrosion on obverse.Diameter: 17.9mmThickness: 3.0mmWeight: 4.26gDAM:Discussion:While the gold stater is earlier than the others it is only by a matter of decades. It was produced in the same region and is likely to still have been in circulation to have been deposited with them. The coins may or may not have been deposited with 2012 T240. Multiple depositions of hoards of Iron Age coins and single coins are known from several sites, possibly with a ritual component.Later Roman and Post Medieval finds were found in the same field but no other items were recovered from the area around the hoard.
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