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'Ex Head' Unit - Belgae Tribe - Ex
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes |
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| Year | 50 BC - 20 BC |
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| Value | Minim (1/200) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Stylised horse depicted in profile moving to the right, rendered in the characteristic Celtic abstract manner with sinuous body lines and prominent curved neck. Pellet and ring ornaments are visible in the field surrounding the animal, a typical decorative convention of Atrebatic silver coinage. Above the horse, a stylised rider or charioteer element may be discerned. The overall design derives ultimately from Macedonian stater prototypes but has been transformed into a distinctly insular Celtic aesthetic. The flan is irregular and the strike somewhat off-centre, consistent with hand-hammered production of this period. |
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The Atrebates arrived in southern Britain as part of the Belgic migrations from northern Gaul, and their coinage tradition followed — adapted from continental prototypes but increasingly abstracted over successive generations of striking. By the mid-first century BC, the figural elements on their silver units had fractured into near-geometric fragments, a process of stylistic dissolution that makes precise die attribution exceptionally difficult. ABC 995 sits toward the later end of this sequence, likely post-Caesarian in date, struck as the tribe consolidated under rulers who would eventually seek accommodation with Rome.