Ancient Silver Imitation Of A Julius Caesar Denarius

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Archeo1982 Pillar of the Community Netherlands 521 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 9:23 pm Metal detector find from 2010, Tarring Neville, Sussex (UK) Obv: Head of Ceres right, hair wreathed in grain Rev: Simpulum, sprinkler, axe and apex D: (mm) 18mm The photo is also from 2010. The special thing about the coin is the fact that it's a combination of the obverse and the reverse from two different denari. Crawford 443/1. HCRI 9. Sydenham 1006. RSC 49 and RSC-4; Cr-467/1b; Syd-1024; S-1403. Edited by Archeo1982 10/13/2017 9:53 pm Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 9:24 pm Celtic imitation? Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34427 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 9:44 pm Interesting piece. I'm wondering how one might distinguish between this piece and a modern struck fake made by careless crooks. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 9:48 pm Intuitive. I never thought of that possibility, but then considered to be very logical. I then went to Google Images, looking for 'Celtic imitations of Roman coins', and found quite a few examples. A question now arises in my mind:- What Celtic tribe produced this coin? Report this Post to the Staff
Archeo1982 Pillar of the Community Netherlands 521 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 9:52 pm It was found in Sussex. Maybe a local Celtic tribe? Report this Post to the Staff
paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 10/13/2017 10:41 pm If Sussex it would have been the Regni (Regenses/Rhegin), under Roman control from Claudius to Plautius to Stilicho following the conquest of the Atrebates in 43 AD, later under the nominal rule of Britons, Jutes, Kentish Angles and ultimately Saxons before their dispersal in the late 5th c. It is not clear if the tribe of the Regenses preceded, were a part of, or were conquered by the Atrebates prior to ca. 100 BC. The prevailing current view is that they were conquered and annexed. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Report this Post to the Staff
Archeo1982 Pillar of the Community Netherlands 521 Posts	Posted 02/05/2018 8:41 pm Here are two more recent photo's of the denarius. Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 02/05/2018 8:49 pm Given where it was found I would agree a Celtic imitation. Report this Post to the Staff
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