Silver Plated Unit Proto Boar with Spear Type Contemporary Counterfeit

Contemporary counterfeits of Corieltauvi coinage were produced by forgers working within the same communities as legitimate coin users — not imported fakes, but locally made pieces intended to pass in everyday exchange. The silver plating technique, applied over a bronze core, mimics the appearance of a solid silver unit closely enough that detection required handling rather than sight. That such counterfeits exist for this type at all suggests the Proto Boar with Spear unit circulated widely enough to be worth forging, a modest but useful indicator of its reach across the East Midlands territory.