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| 背面描述 | Stylised Celtic horse presented in a highly abstracted form, moving to the right across the field in the characteristic disjointed manner of British Iron Age coinage. The horse's body is rendered with a prominent beaded mane and schematised limbs, with the body reduced to geometric components including a crescentic torso and pellet-terminated legs. Ancillary symbols occupy the field around the horse, including a rosette or floral motif below and further pellet and lenticular ornaments in the upper field. No legend is present. The overall composition is typical of the Eastern North Thames series attributed to the Trinovantes, reflecting the artistic degeneration and abstraction of the Macedonian stater prototype. |
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| 铸造量 | ND (45 BC - 40 BC) |
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The Trinovantes occupied Essex and southern Suffolk at a moment when Julius Caesar's two expeditions into Britain (55 and 54 BC) had left the southeastern tribes in an uneasy tributary relationship with Rome. This coin was struck in the decades immediately following that pressure, when Trinovantian chiefs were navigating Roman diplomatic demands while simultaneously competing with the Catuvellauni to their west — a rivalry that would eventually consume them entirely by the early 1st century AD.
The "Finney's Thunderbolt" designation traces to the collector whose example established the type in reference literature. ABC 2255 is among the scarcer fractional gold issues from the North Thames grouping.