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Silver Unit - East Wiltshire Wiltshire Wings
| Issuer | Dobunni tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 15 BC - 30 AD |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Celtic lunate head facing right, rendered in abstract curvilinear style. The hair is composed of three ridged crescents, with a pellet-defined hairline. A prominent sunburst motif occupies the chin area, and the lips are depicted as a short raised stalk. A wing motif appears in the field before the face, characteristic of the East Wiltshire Wings type. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Dobunni occupied a territory centered on the modern Cotswolds, and their coinage tradition developed later than many neighboring tribes — a consequence of their geographic position somewhat insulated from the earliest continental monetary influences reaching southeast Britain. The "East Wiltshire" attribution within the broader Dobunni series reflects findspot distribution analysis rather than any ancient administrative boundary, a reminder of how much modern classification depends on metal detector recoveries.
ABC 2119 sits at the lightweight end of Dobunni silver production, consistent with a general debasement trend across late Iron Age British silver issues as the Roman presence in Gaul disrupted established trade networks and silver supplies.