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Silver Unit - Regni Chichester Helmet
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Value | Silver Unit |
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| Obverse description | Stylised helmeted head facing right, rendered in the Celtic abstract tradition with pronounced facial features including a prominent nose and full lips. The helmet is depicted with characteristic annular and curved decorative elements. A pellet-in-ring motif appears to the left of the head in the field, and the overall design reflects the La Tène artistic style with bold, flowing lines. The flan is irregular, as typical of hand-struck Celtic coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse description | An annulate horse depicted in right-facing profile, its body rendered with stylised musculature and flowing linear detailing characteristic of Celtic Iron Age die-cutting. A spoked wheel motif appears beneath the horse in the lower field, a common symbol in Atrebatic and Reginian coinage. Scattered pellets and curvilinear ornamental devices fill the surrounding field. The composition is bold and dynamic, consistent with the abstract naturalism of late pre-Roman British tribal coinage. |
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The Chichester Helmet type is attributed to the Atrebates kingdom centered around Calleva Atrebatum — modern Silchester — and its southern client territories, issued in the decades immediately following Caesar's two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC. Caesar's campaigns did not result in conquest, but they permanently altered the political economy of southeastern Britain: tribute obligations and intensified cross-channel trade with Gaul accelerated coin use among tribes that had previously relied on non-monetary exchange. This issue belongs to that transitional pressure.
ABC 665 is a scarce variety within a already thinly represented regional series. Most recorded examples have come from metal-detector finds in West Sussex.