An uninscribed silver half-unit of a type attributed by Ancient British Coins to a small tribe or sub-tribe occupying East Wiltshire and striking coins in the period circa 50-35BC, before being absorbed by the Dobunni. Van Arsdell lists the coins (as units rather than half-units) under 'Dobunni - Irregular Coinage' and dates them a little later, 15BC-AD30.
The coins are extremely rare and the obverse of the present one varies a little from the two or three other published examples, which ABC designates the 'Bagendon Beasts' type.
A bronze core of an 'EISV' type gold-plated stater of the Dobunni. The reverse carries a mirror-image of the design which usually appears on this type of stater (eg. UKDFD 2378). This retrograde design is probably due to an inexperienced forger copying the design of a genuine coin straight onto the die, instead of engraving it in reverse.
The findspot is quite a distance outside Dubonnic tribal territory. At the time of recording the CCI database lists only seven other coins of the Dobunni with Lincolnshire provenances, including one other 'EISV' bronze core - CCI-83.0234.
Dobunni Bodvoc (15-10BC), AV Stater, 5.58 grams. Obv: BODVOC across field, Rev: three-tailed horse right, crescent and small cross above, eight-spoked wheel and cross below. BMC.3140, VA.1052, M.395, S.388.
Head of horse missing, slightly off struck.
Dobunni Eisu (30 - 43 AD), AV Stater, 5.2 grams. Obv; tree-like emblem in centre, Rev; horse right, three tails not visible possibly due to part wear and weakly struck. EISV above horse and six-spoked wheel below. Coin shows signs of wear. Found 1995
VA.1105, M.388, S.381, BMC.33040
Celtic Coin Index Record;
http://www.writer2001.com/cciwriter2001/coinrecords/98-2/981284.htm
Corio Cor gold quarter stater of the Dobunni. Fourteen others recorded including one from Alchester and two from Gloucestershire, from the same pair of dies. First recorded find from Wales.
In Gaul corios meant ’army’ and occurs in several tribal names such as the Coriosolites, Tricorii and Petrocorii; and, of course, the Corieltavi of Lincolnshire. The Dobunnic personal name, Corio, may therefore mean ’army’ or ’warrior’, or might be short for Corionos ’army commander’.
One of the most elusive of Dobunnic coins, and the only inscribed quarter stater so far known from the series. The similarity of the reverse to the uninscribed quarter (VA 1010) is a strong argument for Corio being at the head of the inscribed series. Indeed such is the similarity of the two types that it’s not impossible we will identify a die-link between them. (Chris Rudd 2005)