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Silver Unit - Belgae Danebury Sunrays
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Stylised abstract head rendered in the Celtic artistic tradition, depicted facing right. The upper portion of the field is dominated by a prominent arc of closely set pellets representing the hair or crown, arranged in a bold curved band across the flan. Below this, a horizontal bar divides the design, beneath which an oval eye motif is clearly visible in the lower right quadrant of the field. Further pellet clusters and curved linear elements fill the remaining field, characteristic of the debased Hellenistic prototype from which this coinage ultimately derives. The design is entirely anepigraphic, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised Celtic horse shown prancing to the right, rendered in the energetic, abstracted manner typical of late Iron Age British coinage. The horse's body is boldly modelled with curved, sinuous lines, and its legs are depicted in an animated gallop. Above the horse's back, a rider or jockey figure is schematically indicated. A spoke-wheel or solar symbol is visible beneath the horse in the lower right field, and additional pellets and crescentic decorative elements fill the surrounding field. The design is anepigraphic throughout, consistent with the Danebury Sunrays series attributed to the Atrebates. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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