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Andover Crossover. c.50-30 BC. Celtic silver unit. 13mm. 0.72g.
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Andover Crossover. c.50-30 BC. Silver unit. 13mm. 0.72g. Cruciform motif of serpentine band crossed by beaded band, branched emblem and U-shaped ‘lyre’ motif in angles./ Lanky horse standing right on border line; beaded mane; small rings above, below and behind; solar flower in front. ABC−, VA−, BMC−, S−. CCI 18.0446 (this coin). New type, previously unpublished by all major catalogues. EF, bright good-quality silver, well centred both sides, richly ornamented. Virtually as minted, securely provenanced and apparently UNIQUE?
This exciting new discovery, unearthed in north Hampshire on 21 April 2018, is what we might call a ‘North Thames crossover coin’. The obverse crossed-band pattern is almost identical to the Catuvellaunian Snakes and Lyres silver half unit, ABC 2505. And the reverse is very similar to the Danebury Rings silver unit of the Hampshire Belgae, ABC 860; indeed the lanky horse seems to be from the same Danebury stable. Its weight, just under a gram, is very much in line with other Danebury units from the Danebury hoard of 1984 (CHIAB 95, p.163-166) and the Danebury Hill excavations (Cunliffe, B.W. and Poole, C., Danebury Volume 5. The excavations 1979-1988: The finds, CBA Research Report 73, 1991, p.320-328), cf. BMC 595-606, 630-633, 639-641. Dr John Sills says: “A great new find, possible example of a north Thames die cutter moving south; the other direction is unlikely in view of several other cases where the movement is definitely north to south” (pers.comm. 12.8.2018). It is worth noting that the branched emblem of the new Andover Crossover coin is similar to the branched emblem on Irstead gold quarter staters of the Iceni (ABC 1474, 1477, 1480) and on the Branch and Wheel quarter stater found on the Isle of Wight (ABC 2151), as well as the Snakes and Lyres silver half unit of the Catuvellauni (ABC 2505).
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Andover Crossover. c.50-30 BC. Silver unit. 13mm. 0.72g. Cruciform motif of serpentine band crossed by beaded band, branched emblem and U-shaped ‘lyre’ motif in angles./ Lanky horse standing right on border line; beaded mane; small rings above, below and behind; solar flower in front. ABC−, VA−, BMC−, S−. CCI 18.0446 (this coin). New type, previously unpublished by all major catalogues. EF, bright good-quality silver, well centred both sides, richly ornamented. Virtually as minted, securely provenanced and apparently UNIQUE?
This exciting new discovery, unearthed in north Hampshire on 21 April 2018, is what we might call a ‘North Thames crossover coin’. The obverse crossed-band pattern is almost identical to the Catuvellaunian Snakes and Lyres silver half unit, ABC 2505. And the reverse is very similar to the Danebury Rings silver unit of the Hampshire Belgae, ABC 860; indeed the lanky horse seems to be from the same Danebury stable. Its weight, just under a gram, is very much in line with other Danebury units from the Danebury hoard of 1984 (CHIAB 95, p.163-166) and the Danebury Hill excavations (Cunliffe, B.W. and Poole, C., Danebury Volume 5. The excavations 1979-1988: The finds, CBA Research Report 73, 1991, p.320-328), cf. BMC 595-606, 630-633, 639-641. Dr John Sills says: “A great new find, possible example of a north Thames die cutter moving south; the other direction is unlikely in view of several other cases where the movement is definitely north to south” (pers.comm. 12.8.2018). It is worth noting that the branched emblem of the new Andover Crossover coin is similar to the branched emblem on Irstead gold quarter staters of the Iceni (ABC 1474, 1477, 1480) and on the Branch and Wheel quarter stater found on the Isle of Wight (ABC 2151), as well as the Snakes and Lyres silver half unit of the Catuvellauni (ABC 2505).
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