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Currency Bar Billet
| Issuer | Brittonic, Uncertain tribe |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Shape | Other (Sword) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type U (Meare) - ND (200 BC - 100 BC) - Crew Type V (Lesser Garth) - |
| Additional information |
Iron currency bars of this type — often called "sword-currency" in older literature — circulated across pre-Roman Britain and into Gaul, with Julius Caesar himself noting in the Gallic Wars that the Britons used iron as a medium of exchange by weight. Whether these bars functioned primarily as currency, as pre-formed smithing stock, or as both simultaneously remains unresolved. Attribution to a specific tribe is rarely possible without secure hoard provenance.