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Hunston Boar. Regini. c.50-30 BC. Celtic silver unit. 14mm. 1.35g.
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Hunston Boar. c.50-30 BC. Silver unit. 14mm. 1.35g. Diademed head right, flame-like hair, hubbed wheel ‘tattoo’ on cheek, crescent ear with pellet arc below./ Horse right with double-stranded tail, human head above, boar below, ringed-pellets around, enigmatic shape in front. New type, ABC–, VA–, BMC–, S–. Good VF, sharp tattoo, delightfully depicted horse, full boar. Unlisted by major catalogues. Found Hunston, West Sussex, March 2009. UNIQUE
This silver unit was designed by one of the most versatile artists working anywhere in Britain at this time. He (or she) cut dies for several different district leaders in Sussex and also in Berkshire (compare ABC 1001-1007). This unit adapts a closely related Reginian design (ABC–, CR List 186.9), with the same goddess in her water-bird diadem (you see the lower edge of the duck’s cheek and beak at the edge of this coin). Both issues were of equally good silver, matched in weight, but are clearly signalled as from different authorities. Did this one hold lands around a river other than the Arun (ancient Trisantona), whose significance for the primary design Chris Rudd described in his notes on CR 186.9? The Rother, for instance, which flows from Empshott in Hampshire to join the Arun in West Sussex? This one’s version of their battle-boar stands with feet in “my” water, not on the other one’s more solid surface. Their horses have deliberately different faces. This one adds extra ringlet markings and an enigmatic shape in front of the horse that might be the rump and bushy tail of a running animal (fox??), if only we could see more of it. Together with that enormous solar wheel on their goddess’ face, these must all be one particular chieftain’s identifying marks. But are both telling us they are first or second-generation Gauls (not Belgae), securely settled in Sussex? The head above the horse (their goddess again), first seen on ABC 644, then on both of these more evolved designs, was a traditional device of Lemovices in Limousin (DT series 1079, esp. DT 3414), whose coins our engraver obviously knew, and adapted for patrons in Britain. It was likewise rather a Gallic thing to do, to slap signature marks onto a collective deity’s cheek, especially in Armorica and Normandy. But in a pleasing reversal of all their historical fortunes, someone in recently conquered Belgica (40s–20s BC) so admired our British artist’s Reginian design, that they struck a little version of it in bronze for own their local use (DT 497) duck helmet, stalk lips, and all, but minus the military boar, which would have offended their new Roman overlords. Dr John Sills says: “The Hunston Boar is nearly, but not quite, a new type, if that makes any sense. The obverse, complete with a wheel on the face and pellet arc hanging down from the ear, is from the same obverse die as a coin in the Cottam collection, Spink 2 December 2015, lot 69 (1.33g), but Geoff Cottam's example is a brockage, with the reverse an incuse version of the obverse.”
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Hunston Boar. c.50-30 BC. Silver unit. 14mm. 1.35g. Diademed head right, flame-like hair, hubbed wheel ‘tattoo’ on cheek, crescent ear with pellet arc below./ Horse right with double-stranded tail, human head above, boar below, ringed-pellets around, enigmatic shape in front. New type, ABC–, VA–, BMC–, S–. Good VF, sharp tattoo, delightfully depicted horse, full boar. Unlisted by major catalogues. Found Hunston, West Sussex, March 2009. UNIQUE
This silver unit was designed by one of the most versatile artists working anywhere in Britain at this time. He (or she) cut dies for several different district leaders in Sussex and also in Berkshire (compare ABC 1001-1007). This unit adapts a closely related Reginian design (ABC–, CR List 186.9), with the same goddess in her water-bird diadem (you see the lower edge of the duck’s cheek and beak at the edge of this coin). Both issues were of equally good silver, matched in weight, but are clearly signalled as from different authorities. Did this one hold lands around a river other than the Arun (ancient Trisantona), whose significance for the primary design Chris Rudd described in his notes on CR 186.9? The Rother, for instance, which flows from Empshott in Hampshire to join the Arun in West Sussex? This one’s version of their battle-boar stands with feet in “my” water, not on the other one’s more solid surface. Their horses have deliberately different faces. This one adds extra ringlet markings and an enigmatic shape in front of the horse that might be the rump and bushy tail of a running animal (fox??), if only we could see more of it. Together with that enormous solar wheel on their goddess’ face, these must all be one particular chieftain’s identifying marks. But are both telling us they are first or second-generation Gauls (not Belgae), securely settled in Sussex? The head above the horse (their goddess again), first seen on ABC 644, then on both of these more evolved designs, was a traditional device of Lemovices in Limousin (DT series 1079, esp. DT 3414), whose coins our engraver obviously knew, and adapted for patrons in Britain. It was likewise rather a Gallic thing to do, to slap signature marks onto a collective deity’s cheek, especially in Armorica and Normandy. But in a pleasing reversal of all their historical fortunes, someone in recently conquered Belgica (40s–20s BC) so admired our British artist’s Reginian design, that they struck a little version of it in bronze for own their local use (DT 497) duck helmet, stalk lips, and all, but minus the military boar, which would have offended their new Roman overlords. Dr John Sills says: “The Hunston Boar is nearly, but not quite, a new type, if that makes any sense. The obverse, complete with a wheel on the face and pellet arc hanging down from the ear, is from the same obverse die as a coin in the Cottam collection, Spink 2 December 2015, lot 69 (1.33g), but Geoff Cottam's example is a brockage, with the reverse an incuse version of the obverse.”
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