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Description: | A complete, Late Iron Age, cast, high tin content copper alloy, Cantiaci Potin, Class I type - Van Arsdell 117-1/119-1 or ABC 150 & 153. Obverse: Crude celticized head outline of Apollo left, no pellet in large 'eye' circle with small plain border. Inscription: N/A. Reverse: Celticized line bull charging or butting right made of slightly curved lines. Inscription: N/A. Mint: Kentish. Slightly irregular flan with flat edges above and below the head from the broken or cut sprue areas. Fine or worn condition with single striation parallel and above the bull also fine curved line from below the head and across the neck and beyond to the right. Grey patina but a spot of green verdigris. This is likely to date to 100-50BC. Ref. Coins of England and the UK, Spink 2014, page 7 No. 6, Celtic Coinage of Britain, R.D. Van Arsdell, Spink 1989, page 84 No. 117-1/119-1, British Iron Age Coins in the BM, Richard Hobbs, BM Trustees 1996, page 82 (Plate 25) No. 674-677, Ancient British Coins, Elizabeth Cottam, Philip de Jersey, Chris Rudd, John Sills, Chris Rudd 2010, page 34 ABC 150 & 153. The coin is 17.94mm long, 17.65mm wide, 1.32mm thick, diameter 17.94 and weighs 1.54g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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