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Message:: [QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 1671519, member: 40017"]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.[/QUOTE]