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Silver Unit - Eastern North Thames Broadoak Head
| Issuer | Trinovantes tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse stepping to the right occupies the central field, depicted in the schematic Celtic manner with attenuated limbs and a boldly curved neck and body. A boar in profile is positioned above the horse, rendered with characteristic Celtic vigour. Beneath the horse, a wheel or pellet-in-ring motif serves as a ground exergual device, a common cosmological symbol in British Celtic coinage. The field is filled with abstract ornamental elements and pellets typical of the Eastern North Thames series. The overall composition reflects the dynamic, non-naturalistic artistic conventions of late pre-Roman Iron Age British coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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The Trinovantes occupied territory roughly corresponding to modern Essex and southern Suffolk, and by the mid-first century BC were under sustained pressure from the expanding Catuvellauni to the northwest. Caesar's two British expeditions — 55 and 54 BC — briefly disrupted tribal power structures across southeastern Britain, and the Trinovantes were among the tribes that submitted to him, seeking Roman backing against Cassivellaunus. Whether this unit circulated before or after that political realignment is impossible to say with certainty, but the dating places it squarely within that volatile decade.