Unique ID: 115
I know very little about this coin, so I’m pretty much quoting from auction sites here. This potin (a cast bronze coin) was minted by the Remi tribe between 90 and 50 BC. The obverse shows a figure striding to the right carrying a spear in front and a torc behind. The figure’s hair is in a distinctive pony-tail, which can be seen as braided on better quality coins. The reverse shows an animal, possibly a bear, attaking what could be a snake on the ground. There’s an object above the bear which has been described as a fibula, or foliage, but it looks more like a snake with a head stylised in the same way as the bear’s head.
“Ancient British Coins” by Elizabeth Cottam, Philip de Jersey, Chris Rudd, and John Sills says it’s “Extremely Rare” (6 to 15 coins) but the French dealer CGB.FR says it’s “very abundant”. A search in their archives for DT.155 gave 168 items. I can only assume that the authors of Ancient British Coins meant it was extremely rare as a British find, or that they confused it with the extremely rare DT 154 variant.
