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Silver Unit - Belgae Droxford Two Boars
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Reference(s) | ABC 539; BMC 438-439 |
| Obverse description | Two confronted boars displayed back-to-back with upturned snouts, prominent round eyes, and stylised ladder-like dorsal bristles rendered in a distinctively Celtic abstract manner. The interstice between the animals is filled with ringed-pellets and single pellets, while a large beaded solar disc occupies the space between the legs. A long, triple-stranded hair-curl or pony-tail device extends to the left of the composition, and a sinuous serpentine line appears to the right; the remaining field is scattered with ringed-pellets. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Droxford Two Boars type takes its name from a findspot concentration around the Meon Valley in Hampshire, territory firmly within the Atrebatic sphere during the late pre-conquest period. These small silver units were struck in the decades immediately surrounding Caesar's two expeditions to Britain — 55 and 54 BC — a moment when cross-Channel political pressure from Rome was already reshaping tribal hierarchies and, with them, the coinage that expressed tribal authority.
ABC 539 is among the more tightly provenanced Celtic British types, with metal analysis suggesting a silver source consistent with recycled continental coinage rather than newly smelted ore.