Silver Unit - Regni Chichester Chariot Wheel

The Atrebates occupied a territory stretching across modern Hampshire, Sussex, and Berkshire, with Chichester — Roman Noviomagus — later becoming one of their primary centers. This series predates the Claudian invasion by roughly a century, placing it squarely in the period of intensifying cross-Channel contact following Caesar's expeditions of 55 and 54 BC. That contact brought Gaulish coinage conventions into southern Britain rapidly, and the fractured, abstracted imagery on these small silvers reflects a deliberate local adaptation rather than simple imitation.

ABC 701 is a minor series, known from a relatively small number of recorded specimens, the majority of which have emerged from metal detector finds in West Sussex.