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Description: | Late Iron age, 1st century BC copper alloy potin class I, 100-50.BC, Hobbs 1996 no.692-693 are the closest parallels. Obverse is a stylised head of Apollo facing right, formed by a circular border with two concave indentations to form the nose and a large ring and dot in the center to form the eye. Reverse is a stylised butting bull, right, with two crescents above and a line below. The top of the coin obverse and the bottom of the coin have been clipped straight when removed from a larger sprue. The potin has suffered some corrosion and there is a crater, with a perforation from the obverse side, there is also a curvilinear crater of corrosion before the face on the obverse but this has not penetrated through.Diameter 17.85mm, Weight: 1.74gRef: Hobbs, R. 1996. British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum. British Museum Press: London.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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