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Silver Unit - Eastern North Thames Essex Serpent
| 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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| Obverse description | Stylised annulate horse proceeding to the right, rendered in the characteristic La Tène Celtic manner with body joints emphasised by concentric ring-and-pellet motifs and limbs reduced to a single fore and single rear leg. The head is turned back over the body to face a prominent curled serpent depicted above in the field. Additional pellets and annular devices fill the surrounding field, consistent with the decorative vocabulary of late Iron Age British coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A small stylised annulate horse proceeding to the left occupies the central field, its body similarly articulated with ring-and-pellet joints in the prevailing Celtic artistic tradition. A corn-ear motif is depicted below the horse, symbolising agricultural fertility and a common device on Trinovantian issues. A curled serpent appears above and behind the horse in the field. Pellet and annular filler elements are scattered throughout, with the flan exhibiting the characteristic irregular flan shape of hand-struck Iron Age coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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