The Archaeology of British Potin Coinage

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11614566
AutoresColin Haselgrove (autor de correspondencia)
Año1988
Volumen145
Número1
Páginas99-122
Fecha de publicación1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.1988.11077845
OpenAlexW2314338996
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas7

This paper reviews the origins, chronology, and changing circulation pattern of the potin coinage of Iron Age Britain. Archaeological evidence suggests that British potins were made in north Kent from the later second century to the late first century B.C. although potins continued in circulation after this. They were the first indigenous coinage, apparently copying cast central Gaulish imitations of the struck bronze coinage of Massalia, and possibly originated in the Medway area. Initially, potins circulated alongside the imported Gallo-Belgic gold coinages and, like them, were probably used as a form of primitive valuable, but in the mid-later first century, their circulation pattern and Junction changed, becoming closely associated with a network of major sites spanning both sides of the Thames estuary and with the later Iron Age developments which accompanied this, notably the elaboration of the well-known ‘Aylesford Complex’. Appendixes list stratified coins and sites with potin finds

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Chronology · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Copying · Geography · Indigenous · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Engineering · History