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Silver Unit - Belgae Danebury Rings
| 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 | Disjointed Celtic horse prancing to the right, rendered in the characteristic abstracted La Tène style. The field is densely populated with multiple annulets, pellet-in-ring motifs, and loose pellets distributed above, below, and around the horse, filling the flan in a manner typical of Southern British Iron Age coinage of the Atrebatic series. The overall composition reflects the progressive stylisation of the Gallo-Belgic prototype. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Danebury Rings type takes its name from the Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire where examples were concentrated in the archaeological record — Danebury itself had been largely abandoned as a major settlement by this period, suggesting these coins circulated among communities still operating in its shadow rather than within it. The Atrebates occupied territory across modern Hampshire and Sussex, and their coinage production accelerated sharply after Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC forced local political realignments.
ABC 860 is among the smaller denominations in the Belgic silver sequence, and the tight geographic distribution of findspots points to highly localized circulation rather than long-distance exchange.