Silver Unit - Belgae Hayling Two Boars

The Hayling Two Boars type takes its name from the Hayling Island area of Hampshire, where votive deposits at a late Iron Age shrine have produced concentrations of Atrebatic coinage suggesting ritual deposition rather than loss. This coin circulated — and was deliberately removed from circulation — during a period when Caesar's campaigns in Gaul were severing trade networks and pushing refugee aristocrats and their retinues across the Channel into Atrebatic territory, compressing political change into roughly a single decade.

ABC 884 is among the lighter silver units of the sequence, consistent with a documented reduction in flan weight seen across Atrebatic issues during this period of monetary stress.