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Silver Unit - Regni Sussex Lyre
| Issuer | Atrebates and Regini tribes (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 55 BC - 45 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Horse prancing to the right with a distinctive zigzag or pellet-decorated tail, rendered in the abstracted Celtic style. A lyre motif is positioned below the horse, leaning either left or right depending on the die. A wheel symbol appears above the horse, and an S-shaped motif is placed in the field before the horse's head. The composition is characteristic of the Sussex Lyre type within the Atrebatic coinage series, with the multiple subsidiary symbols arranged freely in the field around the central equine figure. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Atrebates entered recorded history largely through Caesar's accounts of his British campaigns, and the tribal coinages of this period reflect a culture already absorbing continental influences via cross-Channel trade routes well before Roman occupation formalized them. This type belongs to a window of rapid monetary experimentation among the southern British tribes — issues were small, varied, and localized in a way that makes firm attribution genuinely difficult even now.
The ABC 647 classification places this firmly within a stylistically coherent group, though die-link studies suggest production was neither centralized nor continuous.