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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IanG, post: 4895728, member: 109252&quot;]I have only just noticed this thread and thought this ancient British coin might be of interest.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181376[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1181377[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Gallo-Belgic Broad Flan stater was found at the iron age settlement of Oldbury Hill, Kent in 1923. It was published by Derek Allen in &#039;The pre-Roman coinage of Kent&#039; 1944 and by Dr John Sills in &#039;Gaulish and Early British Gold Coinage&#039; 2003. This type was amongst the very earliest coins to circulate in Britain; it is in fact S2, the second coin in Spink&#039;s Coins of England, S1 being identical except that the head and horse face right, not left. They were made in Northern Gaul (Belgica) and imported into the South-East of England from about 150 BC onwards.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was actually the first coin I ever bought - and it remains my most expensive! Being English, my initial intention was to collect Celtic coins from Britain. It didn&#039;t take me too long, however, to find that other ancients held more interest. But this coin remains one of my favourites.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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