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Silver Unit - Regni Chichester Boar
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Weight | 1.2 g |
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| Reverse description | A triple-tailed horse prancing right, depicted in the highly stylised Celtic artistic tradition with disjointed, abstracted limbs and a segmented body. A disembodied human head is shown above the horse, rendered schematically with dotted ornaments. A boar, the defining type-symbol of this Regni issue, appears below the horse, identifiable by its characteristic spined back and compact form. Pellets and decorative curvilinear elements fill the field, consistent with the artistic vocabulary of southern British Iron Age coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Chichester Boar series is attributed to the Atrebates and Regini in the decades surrounding Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC — a period when southern British tribes were navigating serious political pressure from Rome and from rival Catuvellauni expansion to the north. Whether coinage of this type was used to pay warriors, facilitate trade, or signal alliance allegiances remains contested among specialists. The flan preparation is notably consistent within this type, suggesting a reasonably organized mint operation rather than ad hoc production.