Celtic Britain

The only Celtic tribes in Britain that issued coinage were in the southeast.

Atrebates and Regni (Regnenses)

ca. 65-55 BC "Cheriton Wheel" Stater
 

Abstract head of Apollo right.

Disjointed, dumpy horse with triple tail with pellet terminals right. Horse's ear made up of two curves forming oval. Wheel below. Charioteer's arm above. Bold pellets in the field.

ABC 758
ca. 55-45 BC "Selsey Uniface" Stater
 

Disjointed horse right, triple-tail with pellet terminals. Eight-spoked wheel below. Charioteer's arm above.

ABC 488 · S 39
ca. 50-30 BC "Climping" Stater
 

Highly stylized, devolved head of Apollo.

Horse facing left.

Van Arsdell 1482 · ABC 524 · S 33A
20-10 BC "Tincomarus Eagle" Unit
 

Roman style laureate head facing right, V behind.

Eagle standing facing on snake.

Tincomarus (Tincommius).
ABC 1106 · S 83
ca. 10-40 AD "Star Boar" Unit
 

COM F between crescents and pellets.

Boar right, VIRI below.

Verica.
S 131
ca. 10-40 AD "Verica Warrior Rex" Stater
 

Tablet inscribed COM · F.

Warrior, preparing to hurl spear, on horse leaping right; lituus to lower left; VIR above, REX below.

Verica.
ABC 1190

Belgae

ca. 80-50 BC "Chute" Stater
NGC VF (4/5, 4/5)

Abstract head of Apollo right.

Disjointed horse, crab below, pellets above.

S 22

Cantiaci

ca. 120-100 BC Unit
 

Stylized head of Apollo.

Butting bull.

Thurrock type.
S 62var
ca. 120-100 BC Unit
 

Crude head.

Lines representing a bull.

Angular bull type.
S 63
ca. 50-20 BC "Corded Triangle" Quarter Stater
 

Stylised Celtic horse left, a corded triangle above, a cross-hatched box below, pellets and pellet-in-annulets in the field.

ABC 198 · VA 151 · BMC 2469–71 · S 172

Catuvellauni

60-50 BC "Westerham North" Stater
 

Highly abstracted, devolved head of Apollo facing right.

A disarticulated (disjointed/stylized) horse facing left with a curved neck and body formed of large arcs (“stacked saucers”).

Obverse 11r, reverse 19. "Great Waltham Curved Neck." Struck under Cassivellaunus (Cassivellaunos), the Catuvellaunian leader who organized resistance against Julius Caesar’s invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 BCE.
ABC 2430 · British Ab1 class 3 · S 21
ca. 45-40 BC "Middle Whaddon Big Wheel" Stater
 

Cruciform design with crossed double wreaths of two corded lines with central line of pellets. Outline linear crescents back-to-back at centre.

Horse right, tail made up of a single line. Wing motif above. Six-spoked wheel with axle below. Whorl with ringed pellet at centre in front. Ellipse behind. Wreath (feathered) exergual line.

ABC 2442 · S 32

Catuvellauni and Trinovantes

ca. 150-100 BC Unit
 

Laureate head left of Apollo.

Bull charging right.

Van Arsdell 1402-1442
ca. 1-40 AD Unit
 

CVNO on panel, wreath around.

TASC F
Winged horse right.

Cunobelin, son of Tasciovanus.
ABC 2876 · V 2053 · BMC 1870 · S 311
ca. 10-43 AD "Classic Stalk" Stater minted in Camulodunum
 

Grain ear with central stalk; CA MV across field.

Horse prancing right; branch above, CVNO below.

Cunobelin. Cunobelinus Classic, stalk type (Trinovantian X). Unpublished die combination (2025). Ex Trehearne Collection.
Allen, Cunobelin (dies I/m; unlisted combination) · ABC 2798 · Van Arsdell 2027-1 · Hobbs 1830 (same obv. die in earlier state) · S 288

Corieltauvi

ca. 70–55 BC "North East Coast" Stater
 

Abstracted head of Apollo right.

Disarticulated sinuous horse right, neck made up of two curves.

ABC 1719 · S 28
ca. 45–10 BC "Kite" Stater
 

Crude laureate head.

Disjointed horse.

ABC 1761 · S 392

Dobunni

ca. 1-20 AD "Catti" Stater
 

Tree symbol, pellet at base, on a plain field.

Triple-tailed horse facing right, wheel below, CATTI above.

S 384

Durotriges

58-45 BC "Cranborne Chase" Stater
 

Abstract head of Apollo right. Wreath with inside end of leaves up. Cloak below. Crescents to right.

Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail. Pellet below. Twelve pellets and tiny elliptical pellet above. Coffee bean above tail.

ABC 2157 · S 365
ca. 40-35 BC Stater
 

Devolved head of Apollo.

Disjointed horse, large pellet below.

S 367
ca. 58-45 BC "Duro Boat Gold" Quarter Stater
 

Three men in a boat / stylized wolf.

Zigzag thunderbolt with objects to each side.

ABC 2205 · S 368

East Wiltshire

50-35 BC "Vale of Pewsey" Quarter Stater
 

Cruciform pattern.

Horse with rings above and below.

ABC 2107

Iceni

20 BC-10 AD Unit
 

Stylised head right, wreath behind.

Horse right with corded mane, pelleted arc and lozenge above, lozenge below.

Time of Boudicca.
ABC 1567 · S 434
Early 1st Cen. Unit
 

Cross of two opposed crescents.

Horse.

S 435
Early 1st Cen. Unit
 

Two opposed crescents.

ATD (Anted)
Stylized horse.

S 441
20 BC-40 AD "Irstead Smiler" Quarter Stater
 

Latticed square over two opposing crescents; branch above and below, pellet-in-annulets flanking, pellets around.

Horse right; voided crescent above, pellet-in-annulet below, pellets around.

Icenian B type.
ABC 1480 · S 430
55 BC-50 BC "Norfolk Wolf" Stater
 

Abstracted head of Apollo.

Wolf right, jaws open, bird on rear back.

ABC 1393 · S 30