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Gold 1/4 Stater Heybridge Horse / Heybridge Annulets
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 45 BC - 40 BC |
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| Weight | 1.2 g |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse advances to the right, rendered in the abstract Celtic tradition characteristic of Late Iron Age British coinage, with a notably large, prominent rump and a distinctive double tail. The mane is rendered as a row of pellets. A ringed pellet occupies the field below the horse, while bold ringed pellets and additional pellets are distributed above and in front of the animal. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Trinovantes, based in what is now Essex and Suffolk, were among the most politically significant tribes in late pre-Roman Britain — it was their appeal to Julius Caesar against Catuvellauni aggression that drew him back for his second invasion in 54 BC. This quarter stater type belongs to the generation after that contact, when Trinovantian coinage was still evolving under the influence of cross-Channel trade with Belgic Gaul rather than Roman monetary convention. The Heybridge findspot designation reflects the concentration of these pieces recovered from the Essex heartland of Trinovantian territory.