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| 裏面の説明 | Highly stylised disjointed horse motif, reduced to an arrangement of prominent raised pellets and curved linear elements distributed across the field, a hallmark of the late Durotrigan bronze coinage. The horse's body is represented by a curved bar or spine flanked by multiple large globular pellets suggesting limbs and body mass, with further pellets arranged in an arc above, likely representing the tail or mane. Subsidiary decorative elements including small leaf-like forms appear in the lower field. No legend or inscription present, consistent with the anonymous, uninscribed character of this type. |
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| 縁 | Plain (irregular) |
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The Durotriges occupied the hillfort-dense territory of modern Dorset and Somerset, and their coinage tells a story of deliberate isolation. While neighboring tribes adopted Roman stylistic conventions and even Roman-allied coin designs during the late first century BC, the Durotriges moved in the opposite direction — progressively degenerating their silver coinage until it became debased bronze, of which this stater is a product. It reflects a tribe that monetized locally and heavily, with little apparent interest in external exchange networks.
Finds cluster overwhelmingly around Hengistbury Head, which served as a major pre-Roman trading port before Roman commercial pressure shifted Atlantic trade routes.