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Silver 1/2 Unit - Regni Chichester Two Horses
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A single horse depicted in profile facing right, distinguished by a prominent ladder-pattern mane rendered as a series of transverse bars along the neck, a hallmark decorative device of the Regini coinage series. An oval leaf motif is positioned above the horse's back, accompanied by a small subsidiary horse figure also placed in the upper field. The design is executed in the vigorous, stylised Celtic artistic tradition, with the forms dissolving into abstract curvilinear elements at the extremities. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend or inscription. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Regni territory around Chichester sat directly in the path of Caesar's two British expeditions of 55 and 54 BC, and the political turbulence that followed — shifting tribal alliances, Roman client relationships, and interrupted trade networks — almost certainly drove the fragmentation of coinage into fractional denominations like this one. Small silver fractions circulated alongside gold staters in a system where value was negotiated as much by weight as by type.
ABC 719 is a scarce variety within the broader Atrebatic silver series, and specimens of this size routinely show die wear disproportionate to their grade, a consequence of the small working dies used for fractional production.