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Gold 1/4 Stater - Regni Danebury Sun Snake
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 50 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Stylised wreath motif occupying the upper portion of the flan, rendered in the characteristic curvilinear Celtic manner. Below, a prominent multi-petalled sun symbol radiates from a central pellet, its rays executed in bold relief typical of Southern British Iron Age coinage. The overall composition is abstract and dynamic, with interlocking crescentic and linear elements filling the field in a tightly organised design derived ultimately from earlier Macedonian gold stater prototypes. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse facing left dominates the field, rendered in the highly abstracted Celtic idiom with a distinctively large, prominent ear and body articulated through a series of pellets and curved lines. Above the horse, a wheel or ring motif with a pellet-decorated rim is prominently positioned in the upper field. The surrounding field is populated with scattered pellets and annulets, characteristic decorative devices of the Atrebatic coinage series. The flan is irregular and the die work is bold, consistent with hand-hammered production of the late pre-Roman Iron Age. |
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The "Danebury Sun Snake" type takes its name from Danebury hillfort in Hampshire, where significant quantities were recovered during Barry Cunliffe's excavations in the 1970s and 80s — one of the most systematically excavated Iron Age sites in Britain. The concentration of finds there suggests the hillfort functioned as a redistribution center or ritual deposit site rather than mere habitation, though the precise mechanism by which coinage moved through late Iron Age southern Britain remains contested.
ABC 593 belongs to the Atrebatic series preceding Commius, predating any named ruler coinage from the region by at least a generation.