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Silver Unit - Regni Littlehampton Moon Head
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Stylised Celtic head facing right, rendered in the distinctive Armorican tradition with a prominent crescent-shaped form dominating the design. The facial features are reduced to abstract elements — a pellet eye and curved relief lines suggesting the brow and nose — executed in fluid La Tène artistic style. Sweeping curved lines emanate from the crown of the head, representing flowing hair or decorative terminals, filling the upper field with concentric arcs. The crescent motif, characteristic of the Littlehampton Moon Head type, defines the lower jaw and chin area in bold raised relief. No legend or inscription; the field is otherwise plain. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised horse prances to the left, its body rendered in bold Celtic curvilinear relief with an arched back and pronounced rounded hindquarters. A torc, indicated by a curved line with terminal pellets, is depicted beneath the horse's neck. A rider clings to the mane above the horse's back, shown in highly abstracted form with limbs reduced to simple raised elements. In the lower field, a boar is depicted beneath the horse, its form rendered schematically in the La Tène tradition. Pellets and geometric ornaments are scattered about the field as subsidiary decorative elements, with no inscription or legend present. |
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| Mintage | ND (55 BC - 45 BC) |
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