In over 4 decades in this hobby this is only the second one I have found of type.
The coin is the same size as a 1 cent piece.
My thanks to a UK forum member for confirming the ID.
Thanks for looking.....Doug.
A Celtic or Ancient British coin of the Durotiges tribe
It dates from the Mid.1st century BC to Mid.1st century AD.
This coin is one of the most distinctive in ancient Britain due its rapid debasement. The disappearance of precious metals should be linked to the declining trade between south west England and Gaul.
Gaul was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic tribes, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, particularly the west bank of the Rhine.
These coins were rather simple and had no inscriptions, and thus no names of coin-issuers can be known, let alone evidence about monarchs or rulers. Nevertheless, the Durotriges presented a settled society, based in the farming of lands surrounded and controlled by strong hill forts that were still in use in 43 AD.
The field where it was found.
The coin.
The coin is the same size as a 1 cent piece.
My thanks to a UK forum member for confirming the ID.
Thanks for looking.....Doug.
A Celtic or Ancient British coin of the Durotiges tribe
It dates from the Mid.1st century BC to Mid.1st century AD.
This coin is one of the most distinctive in ancient Britain due its rapid debasement. The disappearance of precious metals should be linked to the declining trade between south west England and Gaul.
Gaul was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic tribes, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, particularly the west bank of the Rhine.
These coins were rather simple and had no inscriptions, and thus no names of coin-issuers can be known, let alone evidence about monarchs or rulers. Nevertheless, the Durotriges presented a settled society, based in the farming of lands surrounded and controlled by strong hill forts that were still in use in 43 AD.
The field where it was found.
The coin.