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Silver Unit - Berkshire Facing Horses Right
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised Celtic design depicting a facing head or mask rendered in abstract curvilinear form, characteristic of the La Tène artistic tradition. The central motif features a schematic face with pronounced roundels representing eyes, flanked by sweeping arcs and pellet ornaments distributed across the field. The design dissolves into a series of interlocking crescents, spirals, and annulets that fill the flan, with no legible inscription. The entire composition is executed in the abstract, deconstructed manner typical of late Iron Age British coinage derived ultimately from Macedonian prototypes. |
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| Reverse description | Two stylised horses depicted facing one another in a confronted arrangement, their forms rendered in the fluid, abstract curvilinear style of late Iron Age Celtic coinage. The horses' bodies are articulated through bold relief curves, with annulets, pellets, and foliate sprays filling the surrounding field as subsidiary ornaments. A central dividing motif separates the two equine figures, and the lower field is decorated with additional pellet-and-arc devices. The entire design is uninscribed and reflects the progressive abstraction of the Gallo-Belgic prototype from which Atrebatic coinage derived. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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