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Silver Minim - Belgae Hound of Basingstoke
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Diameter | 8 mm |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse advancing to the right, rendered in the abstract Celtic manner characteristic of southern British Iron Age coinage. Above the horse, a prominent beaded ring enclosing a central pellet is positioned in the upper field, serving as a distinctive type-marker for this issue. Additional ring-and-pellet ornaments are scattered across the field, lending a dynamic decorative quality to the composition. The overall design reflects the degenerated Macedonian stater prototype that underlies much of the Belgic coinage tradition. No inscription or legend accompanies the design. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Atrebates occupied a substantial swathe of southern Britain — their territory running roughly from modern Hampshire into Sussex — and maintained unusually close ties with their continental Belgic counterparts, ties that Caesar's campaigns in Gaul did not immediately sever. These minims, fractional silver struck at weights barely registering on a scale, likely functioned as small change within a local exchange economy rather than as prestige currency, though their precise denominational relationship to larger Atrebatic coinage remains debated.
ABC 983 is associated with the Basingstoke distribution cluster, a find-spot concentration that suggests highly localized production or use.