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Silver Unit Cotswold Eagle / Corio Head Type Class B
| Issuer | Dobunni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 15 BC |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Obverse description | Stylised abstract head facing right in the Celtic artistic tradition, rendered with a distinctive crescent-form motif representing the lunar or 'moon' head. The lips are depicted as a stalk form, with a prominent boss or pellet on the chin, and the hair is composed of pelleted crescents arranged in a decorative, non-naturalistic manner characteristic of Late Iron Age Dobunnic coinage. The overall composition reflects the highly schematised figural style of British Celtic die-engravers, in which representational forms are dissolved into geometric and curvilinear elements. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (30 BC - 15 BC) - VA 1042-01: Pellet on chin, pellet and ring below. Triple strand horse`s tail, flower below - ND (30 BC - 15 BC) - VA 1043-01: Pellet and ring on chin, wheel before. Wispy horse`s tail, two sunbursts above, wheel below - |
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