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Bronze Unit Hengistbury Two Legs
| Issuer | Durotriges tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 10-45 |
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| Value | Bronze Unit |
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| Reverse description | Highly abstracted remnant of a horse moving left, reduced to its most schematic elements: two legs rendered as curved lines or pellets, with additional scattered pellets indicating the body and further vestiges of the animal. The design represents the extreme terminal degeneration of the classical horse motif common to British Iron Age coinage, here barely recognisable as a zoomorphic figure. The field is otherwise plain, and the flan edges are notably irregular, consistent with the cast production technique of the Durotrigan series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (10-45) - VA 1322: Remnants of head and horse - ND (10-45) - VA 1323: 12 pellets on reverse - ND (10-45) - VA 1324: Large Y, three pellets either side - ND (10-45) - VA 1325: Large Y, pellets and crescent - |
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