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Silver Unit - Berkshire Chieveley Chickens
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 40 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 40 BC) |
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The Atrebates occupied a territory centered on modern Berkshire and Hampshire, a region that came under direct Roman pressure following Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC — the very moment this coinage begins. The "Chieveley Chickens" designation comes from the Berkshire findspot cluster near Chieveley, where a significant concentration of this type has turned up, mostly through metal detecting. Whether that reflects a mint site, a market, or a votive deposit remains unresolved.
ABC 1010 sits in a tightly defined stylistic group that helps numismatists trace the fragmentation of Atrebatic coinage as the tribe began asserting more localized political identities in the decades before Commios established a recognizable dynastic series.