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Silver Unit - Belgae Danebury Boar
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Obverse description | A stylised boar striding to the left occupies the central field, rendered in the fluid, curvilinear manner characteristic of Late Iron Age Celtic coinage. An uncertain object is depicted before the boar's snout. Three elongated crescent forms, each terminating in volute extensions, arc across the upper field, accompanied by rows of pellets arranged in linear groupings. In the lower field, a pelleted sun motif is prominently placed, composed of a large central pellet enclosed within a ring of smaller pellets, a recurrent solar symbol on Atrebatic issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Danebury Boar type takes its name from Danebury hillfort in Hampshire, where concentrations of this issue have been recovered — suggesting the site functioned as a significant redistribution point, possibly for tribal payments or pre-battle assemblies during a period of acute political pressure from Caesar's Gallic campaigns. Whether the type predates or immediately follows Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC remains contested, but the chronology places it squarely within the most disruptive decade in late Iron Age southern Britain.
Van Arsdell 288 is among the smaller silver fractions of the Atrebatic series, struck to a weight standard that was already declining from earlier issues.