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Silver 1/2 Unit - Eastern North Thames Double Horse
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A small horse depicted in left-facing profile occupies the central field, rendered in the stylised Celtic artistic tradition characteristic of Late Iron Age coinage. The foreleg and hind leg are each represented by a single limb terminating in prominent, heavily modelled clumpy hooves. A complex double-curl mane rises dramatically behind the neck in an elongated, decorative volute. A cross motif is positioned in the field behind the horse, serving as a secondary design element typical of this regional type. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Trinovantes occupied territory roughly corresponding to modern Essex and southern Suffolk, and by the mid-first century BC were under mounting pressure from the expansionist Catuvellauni to the west. This fractional silver unit belongs to a period when Julius Caesar's two expeditions to Britain — 55 and 54 BC — were actively disrupting tribal power structures along the Thames estuary. Whether the coin predates or postdates Caesar's campaigns is unresolved, but its production almost certainly reflects a moment of political instability in which the Trinovantes were simultaneously resisting Catuvellaunian encroachment and, per Caesar's own account, appealing to Rome for protection.