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Silver Unit - Berkshire Facing Horses Right
| Emittent | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Jahr | 55 BC - 45 BC |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | 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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| Auflage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Atrebates occupied a territory straddling what is now the Hampshire-Berkshire border, and their coinage tradition developed partly through contact with Gaulish tribes using imported Gallo-Belgic prototypes. This "Berkshire" type belongs to a regional sub-series distinguished by the orientation of the horse — a detail that, to modern eyes, seems trivial but likely carried tribal or workshop significance in the first century BC.
Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC disrupted existing tribal power structures across the southeast, accelerating both the political fragmentation of the Atrebates and, paradoxically, the diversification of their coinage output.