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Silver Unit - Regni Chichester Cernunnos
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Stylised facing head rendered in the distinctive curvilinear Celtic artistic tradition, the visage depicted with schematic features. The figure appears adorned with a sacerdotal headdress incorporating branching antlers and a solar wheel motif, consistent with iconographic representations of the deity Cernunnos. Pellet ornaments and curved relief elements fill the surrounding field, imparting a ritualistic character to the design. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, typical of British Celtic silver units of this period. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse moving to the left, rendered in the fragmented, disjointed Celtic artistic manner with the body decomposed into abstract curvilinear elements and pellets. Three tails or tail extensions are depicted, fanning outward in a characteristic Late Iron Age decorative treatment. A lyre symbol is prominently placed beneath the horse, while a spiral sun motif appears in the upper field. Additional pellet and crescent ornaments are distributed across the field, consistent with the iconographic repertoire of the Atrebates and Regini tribal coinage. |
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The Regni Chichester type is attributed to the tribal territory centered on what is now Chichester, West Sussex, where the Atrebates maintained a significant political presence following the migration of Commius — the Gaulish chieftain who had served Caesar before defecting to lead British resistance. That political rupture with Rome, sometime after 52 BC, roughly brackets the likely production window for this issue.
ABC#683 is among the smaller-denomination silver units of the southern British series and turns up most frequently in metal-detected assemblages from Hampshire and West Sussex.