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Silver Plated Unit - Regni Sussex Ducks Contemporary Counterfeit
| Emittent | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Jahr | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Nennwert | Silver Unit |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Two opposed waterfowl (ducks) rendered in the La Tène decorative tradition, their bodies arranged symmetrically about the central field, heads turned back in characteristically stylised Celtic fashion. The forms are deeply struck in high relief with boldly curved outlines, supplemented by ring-and-pellet motifs occupying the interstitial spaces. The flan is irregular and the silver plating partially worn or flaking, consistent with the piece's identification as a contemporary counterfeit of reduced weight and base metal core. No inscription or legend is present, the design being entirely geometric-zoomorphic in character. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | A stylised horse progressing to the left, executed in the abstract Celtic artistic idiom typical of southern British Iron Age coinage. The mane is rendered as a prominent ladder or comb motif — a series of raised horizontal bars along the neck — a defining diagnostic feature of this type. Multiple ring-and-pellet ornaments are disposed above and below the horse's body, filling the field in the manner conventional to Atrebatic and Reginian coinage. The overall fabric is irregular, with the silver surface plating visible in areas, confirming the base-metal composition beneath. No legend or inscription is present. |
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Contemporary counterfeits of Iron Age coinage occupy a genuinely ambiguous category — produced outside official tribal authority, yet circulating alongside genuine issues and accepted, evidently, at face value often enough to make the effort worthwhile. The Sussex Ducks type, associated with the Regni territory in what is now West Sussex, was itself a fractional denomination of already modest weight, which made plating over a bronze core a viable fraud with minimal material investment.
The timing places this piece squarely within the period of Caesar's British expeditions, when cross-channel trade and political disruption among the Atrebatic client kingdoms may have loosened the enforcement of monetary integrity that tribal authority would otherwise have maintained.