I live in dorset south England,before the romans came the Britons who lived here were called the durotriges,they bult fantastic hill forts and produced coins this is one, a silver stater made 60 b c to ad 10--so much we don't know about these.any comments please and lets have some more of other british coins pre roman
I've seen them for sale by various dealers. I know they're rare, and quite valuable, and you seem to have a very well-preserved specimen. Do the devices on your coin actually represent anything concrete, or is it one that gets classified as abstract? Also, how do you know it's silver? They come in white gold as well.
If I remember my history of Briton, and there's no guarantee my memory is right, there were many more tribes than the Durotriges. I just found this searching the web: [h=1]Native Tribes of Britain[/h] This map shows the approximate location of the major tribes who lived in Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest of Britain in the First Century AD. The sole source for the existence and location of these tribes are Roman writers who visited Britain. One of the best observers of the tribes of Celtic Britain was Tacitus who wrote on historical events in Britain. Another was a Roman geographer called Ptolemy who wrote a description of Britain, listing the names of the many British tribes. 01: Caledones 02: Taexali 03: Carvetii 04: Venicones 05: Epidii 06: Damnonii 07: Novantae 08: Selgovae 09: Votadini 10: Brigantes 11: Parisi 12: Cornovii 13: Deceangli 14: Ordovices 15: Corieltauvi 16: Iceni 17: Demetae 18: Catuvellauni 19: Silures 20: Dubunni 21: Dumnonii 22: Durotriges 23: Belgae 24: Atrebates 25: Regni 26: Cantiaci 27: Trinovantes
I`ve found Celtic coinage and artifacts around these parts years ago metal detecting. The Beaker people settled around here too.
Plain as a pikestaff! First picture is of Apollo's head, and the second of a horse. Joking aside - those are what these two designs are said to be based on, but as you can see they have gone very abstract from there. The Durotriges coin is loosely based on one known as the Westerham type - but even that is difficult to figure out. Spinks ref is S366. There is much resurgence in interest in these pre-Roman coins, as well as the later Saxon coins in this country. In many ways they show much more artistic merit than the regimes that replaced them. As to the White gold question - it could be - we will have to let the OP check on that. If it is, it would be S365 and be worth much more. To answer Bing's comment - yes there were lots of other tribes in Britain at the time, and it is by no means certain all have been identified as the only records surviving were written by the Romans. Sadly I don't have any of these to post at present.
Now there would be a specialized numismatic pursuit: the Celtic coinage of Briton. Better have deep pockets though.
That is a silver issue. I've handled full gold, white gold, silver, and billon issues of this series. And bronze, too, but technically that's a different series, if I recall.
I suppose 2,000 years from now.... archiologist will try to decipher the various "Street Gangs" of London.
I had bough this coin, simply because it had a great design. The Coin is described as a Coriosolite Amorican Celtic Stater....approx. 20mm and 6.20g The piece is a Billon coin of "debased silver" The coin features a stylized head of Apollo? facing right and on the reverse a stylized Charioteer and Horse Boar below. This coin had been in a previous collection for over 25 years, but a very recent and wildly huge hoard was found on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, located between Modern France (Brittany) and England.... See the Article here... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...friends.html Also I found a great work shop software here.... http://www.writer2001.com/exp0002.htm I played around with this for quite a while and I learned a lot about what I am looking at when I look at Celtic coins, this also helps you with attribution, chronology and to understand the development and significance of the style of these great coins. These coins where circulated as Julius Caesars Army moved West, driving the Gauls towards the Sea .
