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Stallion and Boar. Eastern. c.50-30 BC. Celtic silver unit. 12-14mm. 1.42g.
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Stallion and Boar. c.50-30 BC. Silver unit. 12-14mm. 1.42g. Diademed head left, with elliptical eye, crescent-shaped ear, stars and ?pseudo-inscription around head./ Horse left, with open-head, tiny star and upside-down rider above, small boar below. ABC–, VA-, BMC-, DK-, S-. CCI 20.0814 (this coin). Broken and repaired, otherwise Good VF, super stallion, bold boar. Found Braughing, Herts, c.31 August 2019. EXCESSIVELY RARE only one other recorded.
For more information on this excessively rare type see Chris Rudd List 119, p.6 and No.40. But what a difference it makes to see the whole design on this first complete example! It was designed by a Belgic artist active in Britain who was especially familiar with one particular series of silver and bronze units attributed to the Ambiani (DT 350–352), that in this generation also inspired die designs in Kent (ABC 237: same crouching rider, but upright), Berkshire (ABC 1007: same goddess, but as mistress of animals, and same whirling reverse as our coin), Catuvellaunian lands (ABC 2490), and Suffolk (ABC 1495: see notes on Liz’s List 111, No.1). The Stallion and Boar silver unit here was designed for someone active north of the Thames, probably in exile soon after the Gallic defeat, and who seems to have been on the war-path in a blazing fury, as if determined to make good, with his world turned upside-down. Its somersaulting rider is an extraordinary image, conceivably an acrobat (cf Tasciovanos, Lot 30), but is really its model’s rider upside down. Nowhere else in Britain do we see DT 350’s chunky, muscular stallion (same muzzle, too), mane as erect as his battle-boar’s bristles, charging other stallions in defence of his mares in the mating season. The star above the horse, also taken from DT 350–351, may well be this leader’s personal insignia, and it links him with the goddess, who has two more starburst-emblems in her hair. She must surely represent Sirona, brightness of the Moon, giver of life, whose protection he invoked with that solemn hidden face that his starbursts have made with her ear. But why the somersault? Celtic Sirona (also spelt Stirona, meaning“Star”) was the North Star itself, our Polaris, the one still point around which all the other stars turn, faithful guide for navigation in the dark, and reassurance in a human world where everything was changing.
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Stallion and Boar. c.50-30 BC. Silver unit. 12-14mm. 1.42g. Diademed head left, with elliptical eye, crescent-shaped ear, stars and ?pseudo-inscription around head./ Horse left, with open-head, tiny star and upside-down rider above, small boar below. ABC–, VA-, BMC-, DK-, S-. CCI 20.0814 (this coin). Broken and repaired, otherwise Good VF, super stallion, bold boar. Found Braughing, Herts, c.31 August 2019. EXCESSIVELY RARE only one other recorded.
For more information on this excessively rare type see Chris Rudd List 119, p.6 and No.40. But what a difference it makes to see the whole design on this first complete example! It was designed by a Belgic artist active in Britain who was especially familiar with one particular series of silver and bronze units attributed to the Ambiani (DT 350–352), that in this generation also inspired die designs in Kent (ABC 237: same crouching rider, but upright), Berkshire (ABC 1007: same goddess, but as mistress of animals, and same whirling reverse as our coin), Catuvellaunian lands (ABC 2490), and Suffolk (ABC 1495: see notes on Liz’s List 111, No.1). The Stallion and Boar silver unit here was designed for someone active north of the Thames, probably in exile soon after the Gallic defeat, and who seems to have been on the war-path in a blazing fury, as if determined to make good, with his world turned upside-down. Its somersaulting rider is an extraordinary image, conceivably an acrobat (cf Tasciovanos, Lot 30), but is really its model’s rider upside down. Nowhere else in Britain do we see DT 350’s chunky, muscular stallion (same muzzle, too), mane as erect as his battle-boar’s bristles, charging other stallions in defence of his mares in the mating season. The star above the horse, also taken from DT 350–351, may well be this leader’s personal insignia, and it links him with the goddess, who has two more starburst-emblems in her hair. She must surely represent Sirona, brightness of the Moon, giver of life, whose protection he invoked with that solemn hidden face that his starbursts have made with her ear. But why the somersault? Celtic Sirona (also spelt Stirona, meaning“Star”) was the North Star itself, our Polaris, the one still point around which all the other stars turn, faithful guide for navigation in the dark, and reassurance in a human world where everything was changing.
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