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Anarevit[o]. Sills class 1. Cantiaci. c.AD 10-15. Celtic gold stater. 17mm. 5.50g.
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Anarevit[o]. Sills class 1.c.AD 10-15. Gold stater. 17mm. 5.50g. Back-to-back crescents on three-line wreath (left and right middle lines corded, top and bottom outer lines corded,), EPPI in angles./ Rider on full-bodied horse galloping right, ANA above (AN conjoined), REVIT below, pellet above horse’s head, beaded border. ABC–, VA–, BMC–, DK 119 var., S–. PAS: KENT-06535F (this coin). Good VF, large flan of buttery gold, sharp inscription, magnificent warrior. Found Dover, Kent, 4 March 2024. EXCESSIVELY RARE only one other known, these dies UNIQUE?
In several respects this second Anarevito stater is as important as the first. Crucially, it confirms that the ruler’s name is Anarevito[s], not Avarevito[s]. The neatly ligatured cross-barrel A and forward-leaning N leave no doubt about this, as the first stater did. This one is struck from completely different dies, with an entirely different legend layout on both sides of the coin; note too that the letter O has been omitted from the last part of the name. The different dies mean that the issue was larger than originally thought. Indeed, Anarevito himself was probably a bigger figure in three- or four-part Cantion, each with its own king, yes, king (BG 5.22), than previously imagined. He minted more coins than hitherto realised. As Dr John Sills observes, Anarevito probably struck the Wreath Cross gold quarter stater, ABC 390, and also the Stepping Horse silver minim, ABC 402, both previously assigned to his father, Eppillus (J.Sills, Divided Kingdoms, p.78, 783). Moreover, it may be significant that this second Anarevito stater was discovered only a mile or so from the first (near Dover) and only seven miles from Folkestone, which in the Late Iron Age was the most convenient port in Britain for ferrying folk to France (ancient Gaul). This fact, plus the fact most of the other gold and silver coins now attributed to Anarevito have also come from east Kent, has led to speculation that Anarevito, possibly based at or near Folkestone, was perhaps placed to export slaves from Britain and to import Italian wine from Gaul. His two gold staters, both found not far from Folkestone, also hint that Anarevito had the financial and political power to profit from slave trading. David Holman, who has extensive experience of Kent’s Iron Age coins and archaeology, agrees. He writes: “The evidence of Anarevito’s gold staters indicates that he would have held a sufficient level of power to have been a likely beneficiary of slaves” (pers.comm. 14 July 2024). When comparing this second Anarevito stater with the first, (sold by Chris Rudd for £21,000, 16.5.2011, now in the British Museum) we think that most professional numismatists and most amateur collectors would concur that this superbly well centred specimen is of a markedly higher grade. The first of these remarkable and impressively important gold staters was discovered too late for inclusion in our book Ancient British Coins; however you’ll find a brief reference to it in our note for ABC 390. For fuller reports of this stupendous stater see Chris Rudd List 115, p.2-3; Current Archaeology 250 (January 2011), p.7; Coin News, December 2010, p.10; Treasure Hunting, January 2011, p.86-87; The Searcher, February 2011, p.50-51.
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Anarevit[o]. Sills class 1.c.AD 10-15. Gold stater. 17mm. 5.50g. Back-to-back crescents on three-line wreath (left and right middle lines corded, top and bottom outer lines corded,), EPPI in angles./ Rider on full-bodied horse galloping right, ANA above (AN conjoined), REVIT below, pellet above horse’s head, beaded border. ABC–, VA–, BMC–, DK 119 var., S–. PAS: KENT-06535F (this coin). Good VF, large flan of buttery gold, sharp inscription, magnificent warrior. Found Dover, Kent, 4 March 2024. EXCESSIVELY RARE only one other known, these dies UNIQUE?
In several respects this second Anarevito stater is as important as the first. Crucially, it confirms that the ruler’s name is Anarevito[s], not Avarevito[s]. The neatly ligatured cross-barrel A and forward-leaning N leave no doubt about this, as the first stater did. This one is struck from completely different dies, with an entirely different legend layout on both sides of the coin; note too that the letter O has been omitted from the last part of the name. The different dies mean that the issue was larger than originally thought. Indeed, Anarevito himself was probably a bigger figure in three- or four-part Cantion, each with its own king, yes, king (BG 5.22), than previously imagined. He minted more coins than hitherto realised. As Dr John Sills observes, Anarevito probably struck the Wreath Cross gold quarter stater, ABC 390, and also the Stepping Horse silver minim, ABC 402, both previously assigned to his father, Eppillus (J.Sills, Divided Kingdoms, p.78, 783). Moreover, it may be significant that this second Anarevito stater was discovered only a mile or so from the first (near Dover) and only seven miles from Folkestone, which in the Late Iron Age was the most convenient port in Britain for ferrying folk to France (ancient Gaul). This fact, plus the fact most of the other gold and silver coins now attributed to Anarevito have also come from east Kent, has led to speculation that Anarevito, possibly based at or near Folkestone, was perhaps placed to export slaves from Britain and to import Italian wine from Gaul. His two gold staters, both found not far from Folkestone, also hint that Anarevito had the financial and political power to profit from slave trading. David Holman, who has extensive experience of Kent’s Iron Age coins and archaeology, agrees. He writes: “The evidence of Anarevito’s gold staters indicates that he would have held a sufficient level of power to have been a likely beneficiary of slaves” (pers.comm. 14 July 2024). When comparing this second Anarevito stater with the first, (sold by Chris Rudd for £21,000, 16.5.2011, now in the British Museum) we think that most professional numismatists and most amateur collectors would concur that this superbly well centred specimen is of a markedly higher grade. The first of these remarkable and impressively important gold staters was discovered too late for inclusion in our book Ancient British Coins; however you’ll find a brief reference to it in our note for ABC 390. For fuller reports of this stupendous stater see Chris Rudd List 115, p.2-3; Current Archaeology 250 (January 2011), p.7; Coin News, December 2010, p.10; Treasure Hunting, January 2011, p.86-87; The Searcher, February 2011, p.50-51.
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