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1/2 Silver Unit 'Corieltauvian D'

Issuer Corieltauvi tribe
Year 45 BC - 10 BC
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Reference(s) Sp#400, V#877-81
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Reverse description A stylized, Celticized horse rendered in a highly abstract Iron Age idiom, advancing to the right with a distinctive triangular head; a pellet rosette ornament occupies the field above the horse's back, while a single pellet appears beneath the tail. The design is characteristic of the later Corieltauvian coinage, reflecting a progressive geometric abstraction of earlier Gallo-Belgic prototypes.
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The Corieltauvi occupied a broad territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and are notable among British Iron Age tribes for issuing coinage collaboratively — many of their coins bear paired names, suggesting a dual-magistracy or joint rulership arrangement without parallel elsewhere in pre-Roman Britain. The 'D' classification within this series reflects a typological grouping by modern scholars rather than any ancient denomination hierarchy; the tribe itself left no written record of how these fractions functioned within their economy.

At this weight, the piece would have contained only a modest amount of silver, likely alloyed further as the series progressed toward its end date near the Claudian conquest horizon.

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