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Description: | Copper alloy Osismii type stater, referred to as the 'cavalier' type in De Jersey (1994) Coinage in Iron Age Armorica on page 8, and now known as the 'type au cavalier armé et au fleuron'. The cavalier armé is the rider on the horse, and the fleuron is the motif in front of the horse, with a boar beneath the horse. On the obverse, the head is probably bearded, shown by lots of little dots on the chin, but this one is rather worn in that area.The type is listed as DT 2234 in Delestrée and Tache's 'Nouvel Atlas des monnaies gauloises II', while the most recent detailed work on these is by Philippe Abollivier, 'Le monnayage des Osismes', published in 2008 (pages 231-234, his variant 1). Interestingly he gives three metal analyses of other examples, all of which contain a reasonable amount of gold, between 25 and 35%, with 13-26% silver and 44-56% copper. There does not appear to be much gold in it, but the surface appearance can be deceptive.Other examples of this type have been found at Carantec in Finistère, a fairly recent hoard (2007) from Laniscat, Côtes-d'Armor, and from the Le Ctillon (1957) hoard from Jersey. Some of the coins from the Jersey find are now in the British Museum. In terms of date it is almost certainly first half of the first century BC, probably c.70 BC. No examples have previously been found in Britain, and the coin is rare even in Brittany, where Abollivier only lists a handful of examples (Philip de Jersey pers comm).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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