Silver Unit Cotswold Oxo Head E / Antedrig Head
Features
| Issuer |
Dobunni tribe
(Celtic Britain)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 5-10 |
| Value | Silver Unit |
| Currency | Stater |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 1.15 g |
| Diameter | 13 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 461385 |
| References | COD# 22a, 22b Peter Healy; 2025. Coins of the Dobunni: Designed by Druids for Belgic Kings?. Chris Rudd, Aylesham, United Kingdom. Elizabeth Cottam, Philip de Jersey, Chris Rudd, John Sills; 2010. Ancient British Coins. Chris Rudd, Aylsham, United Kingdom. Robert D. Van Arsdell; 1989. Celtic Coinage of Britain. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. Standard Catalogue of British Coins (37 volumes).Richard Hobbs; 1996. British Iron Age coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , Mack# 380Richard Paston Mack; 1975. The Coinage of Ancient Britain. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. |
Series: Cotswold Head
Obverse
Moon head right (more stylised than the Cotswold Eagle), stalk lips, pellet triads for hair (smaller pellets than the Cotswold Eagle), pellet in ring for eye (face has O-X-O pattern of two pellet-in-rings with X between). Cross and pellet in ring below. Pellets in arcs behind.
Reverse
Triple-tailed annulate horse left. Three-petal flower motif below. Crescent and winged pellet in ring motif above (very stylised bird head with crescent below). Two pellets above tail.
Comments
Evans: F7 (1864, p. 105, pl. F).
Allen Type: E.
Van Arsdell ‘Antedrig Head’. Van Arsdell Classification: Dobunnic D, Silver Coins Inscribed Antedrig. Van Arsdell attributes this coin to Anted. He uses style and objects in the fields to associate the silver uninscribed coins with their gold counterparts, and metallurgy and metrology to assign the uninscribed staters to rulers with inscribed coins. However, it is a hypothesis that Rudd does not follow.
Van Arsdell notes modern forgeries (VA 1074 - 01 - F1, VA 1074 - 01 - F2 and VA 1074 - 01 - F3).
Chris Rudd (ABC) ‘Cotswold Oxo Head Type E’.
Healy Phase 3:
COD 22a ‘Cotswold Oxo E, Arch Neck’. Stalk lip attached to nostril end. Horse with arched neck, separate ears. 10 known.
COD 22b ‘Cotswold Oxo E, Straight Neck’ (ABC 2024). Lower stalk lip continuation of nostril. Horse with straight neck, elliptical ear. 36 known.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | References | ||||||||
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| ND (5-10) | COD# 22aPeter Healy; 2025. Coins of the Dobunni: Designed by Druids for Belgic Kings?. Chris Rudd, Aylesham, United Kingdom. |
Stalk lip attached to nostril end. Horse with arched neck, separate ears | |||||||||||||
| ND (5-10) | 
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COD# 22bPeter Healy; 2025. Coins of the Dobunni: Designed by Druids for Belgic Kings?. Chris Rudd, Aylesham, United Kingdom. |
Lower stalk lip continuation of nostril. Horse with straight neck, elliptical ear | ||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 97
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Examples of the type
© British Museum, 1919,0213.661
ND (5-10) – COD# 22b – Lower stalk lip continuation of nostril. Horse with straight neck, elliptical ear • Nunney, Somerset • 13 mm • 1.24 g (see more)
ND (5-10) – COD# 22b – Lower stalk lip continuation of nostril. Horse with straight neck, elliptical ear • Nunney, Somerset • 13 mm • 1.24 g (see more)
© British Museum, 1919,0213.659
ND (5-10) – COD# 22b – Lower stalk lip continuation of nostril. Horse with straight neck, elliptical ear • Nunney, Somerset • 12.5 mm • 1.22 g (see more)
ND (5-10) – COD# 22b – Lower stalk lip continuation of nostril. Horse with straight neck, elliptical ear • Nunney, Somerset • 12.5 mm • 1.22 g (see more)
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