This is my most abstract British stater based on the Philip II tetradrachm...Apollo and the horse need a lot of explanation...
Cranbourne Chase Stater, 50-10BCDurotriges tribe, Dorset. Silver, 19mm, 4.78g. Crude head of Apollo with wreath, cloak and crescents. Horse representation left of disjointed pellets, lines and crescents, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three lines for tail; pellet below; twelve pellets above; wheel of biga behind (ABC 2157; VA 1235-1; M 317; S 366). From the Winterborne Stickland (Dorset) Hoard 2013 of 75 staters, Portable Antiquities Scheme: WILT-DF1BB7 (this coin is image 29).
really lovely example! that horse is evidence of why we should only allow supervised grazing, keep the horses off the mushrooms
I don't usually buy Celtic coins...
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really lovely example! that horse is evidence of why we should only allow supervised grazing, keep the horses off the mushrooms