Katalog
Vollständige Bilder anzeigen — kostenlose Registrierung
Mit Google fortfahren — kostenlos
oder mit E-Mail registrieren
Warum registrieren? Nur um Bots aus unserem Katalog fernzuhalten. Ihre E-Mail bleibt privat — wir geben sie nie weiter und senden Ihnen nichts Unerwünschtes. Das garantieren wir Ihnen!
Minim 'Atrebatic A' - Concave Square
| Emittent | Atrebates and Regini tribes |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 50 BC - 25 BC |
| Typ | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Nennwert | Minim (1/200) |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Material | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Gewicht | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Durchmesser | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Dicke | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Prägetechnik | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Ausrichtung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Stempelschneider | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Referenz(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Aversbeschreibung | Highly schematic and abstracted design typical of Late Iron Age British Celtic coinage, struck on an irregularly shaped flan. The field displays a degraded, stylised arrangement of curvilinear and linear elements derived from earlier classical prototypes, including a spiral motif at centre flanked by diagonal strokes. The surface exhibits characteristic hammered relief with no legend or inscription. The overall composition reflects the 'Atrebatic A' series tradition, in which representational imagery has been reduced to near-abstract geometric patterning. |
|---|---|
| Aversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Averslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reversbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reversschrift | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Reverslegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rand | Plain |
| Prägestätte | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Auflage | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Minims of this type were struck in the quarter-century before Roman administrative control reshaped southern British coinage entirely. The Atrebates and Regini, occupying territory roughly equivalent to modern Hampshire, West Sussex, and Berkshire, maintained a mint tradition with strong Gaulish roots — the Atrebates were, after all, a tribe present on both sides of the Channel, with continental kinsmen Caesar had already subdued by the mid-50s BC. That political pressure almost certainly accelerated the fragmentation of coinage into these tiny fractional denominations, as tribal economies contracted and hoarding intensified.
At 0.4g, these were the smallest unit of account in the regional series. Losses in excavation are near-total; metal detector recovery accounts for virtually every known example.