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Silver 1/2 Unit - Belgae Danebury Four Lyres
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Reverse description | A stylised stag is depicted facing left with its head turned back over its body, rendered in the characteristic abstract Celtic artistic tradition. A winged symbol or avian device appears above the rump of the stag, executed in fluid curvilinear relief. A prominent double-ring or concentric circle device is placed in the lower field beneath the stag. The overall composition fills the irregular flan with bold, deeply struck relief elements typical of hammered Iron Age coinage. No inscription or legend is present on this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Danebury Four Lyres type takes its name from the Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire where significant concentrations of this issue have been recovered, suggesting the site retained ritual or exchange functions well into the late pre-conquest period. The Atrebates, whose territory stretched across modern Hampshire, Berkshire, and West Sussex, were among the more monetarily sophisticated of the southern British tribes — a fact likely accelerated by close cross-Channel contact with Belgic Gaul, particularly during the political disruptions Caesar's campaigns caused among Continental Atrebatic communities after 57 BC.