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Currency Bar Plough
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Thickness | 8 mm |
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| Obverse description | Undecorated blade with raised flanges at one end (winged sockets, not folded over). Narrows along the length. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type L (Maidenhead) ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type M (Datchet) ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type N (Llyn Cerrig Bach) ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type P (Park Farm) ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type Q (Glastonbury Rod) ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type T (Brixworth) ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type W (Gransmoor) |
| Additional information |
Iron currency bars circulated across Iron Age Britain as a medium of exchange well before Roman contact, and Julius Caesar noted their use explicitly in his account of Britain circa 54 BC — one of the few contemporary written references to prehistoric British monetary practice. The plough-sword type, produced predominantly in the territories of the Dobunni and neighboring groups of the central and western regions, represents a specific regional tradition distinct from the sword-shaped bars found further east.
Iron was itself a commodity of productive value, meaning these objects straddled the line between tool-blank and currency — a distinction the Romans found economically primitive but which served local exchange networks effectively for generations.