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Danebury Dragon. Belgae. c.50-40 BC. Celtic silver unit. 12mm. 0.97g.
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Danebury Dragon. c.50-40 BC. Silver unit. 12mm. 0.97g. S-shaped dragon facing left looking back, beaded body and dewlap, ringed-pellet and double row of crescents below, pellet in each cusp./ Horse left, floral sun above, ringed-pellet in front, cogwheel and two pellets below, exergual oblong tablet with central wavy line. ABC 896, VA 286, BMC 631-33, S 58. CCI 16.0106 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned silver, delightful dragon, bold horse, full cogwheel, clear tablet. Ex Luke Daniel collection, ex Geoff Cottam collection, Spink 2 December 2015, lot 102, bt. Alan Cherry 26 January 1996. EXTREMELY RARE only 16 others recorded, inc. four in museums.
Many ancient cultures pictured a shape-shifting horse-like denizen of dangerous waters – as kelpies they still exist in Scottish folklore. They lurked in deep lakes and in boundary streams, and could kick up a storm at sea, like the storms at high tide just a few years earlier that had famously wrecked two of Julius Caesar’s fleets in successive Septembers in Kent. This one is doing just that, rising with a twist of its sinuous body, like trout catching flies in a Hampshire chalk stream, to dance with its horse-leg tail upon spume-flecked banks of wind-driven waves that we still call “white horses”. This coin gives a fine view of the action in the lower part of this spectacular design. We are also meant to know that the sun-drenched horse on its reverse is one and the same fairy creature: they have identical heads, ears, hind legs, and distinctive hooves. Continuous beaded chains give this sea-horse broad, diaphanous, fins along both belly and back that are repeated in the land-horse’s dotted mane and an extra, boldly dotted, upper doubling of its ordinary tail: it hasn’t altogether lost its other-worldly fins. Even friends had to be careful with dangerous creatures that were said to devour or drown anyone or anything invading their space, and on land would patrol boundary streams and territorial waters. The tablet with wavy central line upon which this one prances may well represent specific lands either side of the river Test, and together with the cogwheel insignia of high authority, flanked by twin dots, is watching you, like a solemn hidden face. Both dies carry several standard emblems and markers of political identity and group affiliation, including the horse-heads’ scissor-handle muzzles: cf quarter-stater ABC 590, surely also from the same mint. The message to anyone who might challenge this leader’s control is to beware. His land and its waters are mightily protected.
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Danebury Dragon. c.50-40 BC. Silver unit. 12mm. 0.97g. S-shaped dragon facing left looking back, beaded body and dewlap, ringed-pellet and double row of crescents below, pellet in each cusp./ Horse left, floral sun above, ringed-pellet in front, cogwheel and two pellets below, exergual oblong tablet with central wavy line. ABC 896, VA 286, BMC 631-33, S 58. CCI 16.0106 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned silver, delightful dragon, bold horse, full cogwheel, clear tablet. Ex Luke Daniel collection, ex Geoff Cottam collection, Spink 2 December 2015, lot 102, bt. Alan Cherry 26 January 1996. EXTREMELY RARE only 16 others recorded, inc. four in museums.
Many ancient cultures pictured a shape-shifting horse-like denizen of dangerous waters – as kelpies they still exist in Scottish folklore. They lurked in deep lakes and in boundary streams, and could kick up a storm at sea, like the storms at high tide just a few years earlier that had famously wrecked two of Julius Caesar’s fleets in successive Septembers in Kent. This one is doing just that, rising with a twist of its sinuous body, like trout catching flies in a Hampshire chalk stream, to dance with its horse-leg tail upon spume-flecked banks of wind-driven waves that we still call “white horses”. This coin gives a fine view of the action in the lower part of this spectacular design. We are also meant to know that the sun-drenched horse on its reverse is one and the same fairy creature: they have identical heads, ears, hind legs, and distinctive hooves. Continuous beaded chains give this sea-horse broad, diaphanous, fins along both belly and back that are repeated in the land-horse’s dotted mane and an extra, boldly dotted, upper doubling of its ordinary tail: it hasn’t altogether lost its other-worldly fins. Even friends had to be careful with dangerous creatures that were said to devour or drown anyone or anything invading their space, and on land would patrol boundary streams and territorial waters. The tablet with wavy central line upon which this one prances may well represent specific lands either side of the river Test, and together with the cogwheel insignia of high authority, flanked by twin dots, is watching you, like a solemn hidden face. Both dies carry several standard emblems and markers of political identity and group affiliation, including the horse-heads’ scissor-handle muzzles: cf quarter-stater ABC 590, surely also from the same mint. The message to anyone who might challenge this leader’s control is to beware. His land and its waters are mightily protected.
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