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Silver 1/2 Unit Proto Boar Wheel Type Right
| Issuer | Corieltauvi tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Reference(s) | ABC#1827 , Van Arsdell#862 , BMC Iron#3244-5 , Sp#399 , Mack#406a |
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| Reverse description | Stylised horse advancing to the right rendered in the angular, abstracted Celtic artistic tradition, with limbs depicted in a highly schematic manner. A four-spoked wheel symbol is positioned in the upper field above the horse's back. An annular or star motif may appear below the horse on some specimens. The design is characteristic of the Corieltauvian proto-boar wheel coinage, with the flan exhibiting the irregular edges typical of hand-struck Celtic issues of this period. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Corieltauvi occupied a large territory across what is now Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and their coinage tradition developed later and more idiosyncratically than that of southeastern tribes with direct Gaulish contact. This fractional silver issue belongs to the proto-coinage phase, before the tribe adopted inscribed types — meaning no magistrate's or ruler's name was yet being claimed on the currency, an unusual conservatism that persisted well into the period when southern British tribes had long since begun naming individuals on their coins.