24 - Clacton de Jersey - The TCx3 Collection

Unique ID: 24

Technical details

DataDescriptionProvenanceReferences

Denomination	Quarter Stater	Metal	Gold
Area	Britain	Region	North Thames
Issuing Authority	Trinovantes	Issuer	Unknown
Weight	1.40g	Diameter	13.5mm
Rarity	Scarce (51 to 100)	Date	57 BC to 55 BC (see note about dating)

Obverse Legend	No Legend
Reverse Legend	No Legend
Obverse Description	The obverse shows an ornate boat with two figures with an annulet to the left and a partial annulet to the right. The top half of the coin is rimmed with crescents. The obverse is sometimes rotated 180 degrees and described as a stylised animal (normally a boar but sometimes a wolf), but the arguments for this are unconvincing and the text required to describe the design as a boar or other abstract animal becomes increasingly convoluted. A possible interpretation of the boat and its passengers was presented by Daphne Nash Briggs in "Reading the images on lron-Age coins: I. the sun-boat and its passengers".
Reverse Description	The reverse consists of a running horse standing on a curved exergue filled with triangles, each containing a pellet. A crescent and pellet appear below the horse, and a dolphin like motif appears below that.

Bt. Ebay 2018. Item number 282852888970

ABC	ABC 2350. Clacton de Jersey
Divided Kingdoms	DK 412. British G2 Class 2a – Clacton Curved Exergue
Spink	S 42. British H

The Clacton de Jersey quarter staters were minted by the Trinovantes, and Dr. John Sills posits that they were minted after the start of the Gallic wars in 58 BC but before the first invasion of Britain by Caesar in 55 BC. The are named after Dr. Phillip de Jersey who identified them and attributed them to the British G staters.

Sills (“Divided Kingdoms: The Iron Age Gold Coinage of Southern England”) breaks the Clacton de Jersey type down into 3 classes, with this coin being part of the largest class, Class 2a. See 69 and 82 for examples of the extremely rare class 2B.