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Silver Unit East Wiltshire - Potterne Moon Head

Issuer Brittonic, Uncertain tribe
Year 50 BC - 20 BC
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Composition Silver
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (50 BC - 20 BC)
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The "Moon Head" series from East Wiltshire remains tribally unattributed — no ancient literary source names a tribe in this precise zone, and the archaeological distribution of finds has not yet produced a conclusive territorial boundary to assign the issue with confidence. Potterne, the find-spot that anchors the type's name, was an Iron Age settlement of some significance, but its relationship to whatever polity struck this coinage is still debated among specialists.

ABC 2131 represents one of the more localised uninscribed silver series of the late British Iron Age, with a find concentration tight enough to suggest highly regional circulation rather than inter-tribal exchange use.

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