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Iron Age Coin: Uninscribed Quarter Stater
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Winchester Museum Service, Laura A McLean, 2006-11-03 08:14:11
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Iron Age Coin: Uninscribed Quarter Stater
Description
English: Iron Age gold coin of the Cantii Tribe, measuring 11.09mm in diameter and 2.03mm in thickness.

Early British uninscribed D 'Cheriton' type quarter stater dating from the late 2nd to mid 1st century AD. Van Arsdell type 143-1.

The obverse depicts a crescent with vertical projections along its upper side, with three pellets below it to the left, and two irregular shapes below the crescent to the right. The reverse Has a straight line intersected by a wavy line with three projections at its base. To one side of the wavy line is a crescent containing two pellets, to the other side of the wavy line is a miscellaneous angular shape.

There are several examples of this coin type listed in the Celtic Coin Index, for example CCI 000705, CCI 981006, CCI 951427 and CCI 991712. Also see Hobbs page 52 and Plate 6 numbers 129-136.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 125 BC and 50 BC
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FindID: 146898
Old ref: HAMP-BDEDA1
Filename: HAMP-BDEDA1.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/119344
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/119344
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/146898
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Object location51° 13′ 51.6″ N, 0° 51′ 59.13″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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