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Silver 1/2 Unit - Eastern North Thames Essex Eagle
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Highly abstracted Celtic design featuring a stylised head or mask rendered in characteristic La Tène artistic style, with bold curvilinear relief lines defining the facial features. A prominent pellet-in-annulet motif appears above, flanked by additional pellets arranged in a loose arc across the upper field. The design is executed in low to medium relief with fluid, organic forms typical of late Iron Age British coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with no inscriptions or legends present. The overall composition reflects the artistic conventions of the Eastern North Thames coin-producing tradition. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a stylised eagle or bird of prey rendered in the abstract Celtic idiom, with prominent curvilinear body and wing forms filling the flan. The bird's head, shown in profile with a hooked beak, is accompanied by spiral ornaments and pellet-in-annulet devices scattered across the field, consistent with Eastern North Thames typology. Additional decorative scroll and crescent motifs occupy the lower field, lending the design a dynamic, energetic quality characteristic of Trinovantian minor coinage. The composition is uninscribed, with no legend or exergual marking. The hammered flan shows typical irregular edges and natural surface patination consistent with burial-recovered Iron Age silver. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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