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Cotswold Oxo silver unit
Coin 19 · Dobunni (Western region)
A worn, uninscribed silver unit of the Dobunni. The record describes a 'moon head' on one face and a stylised horse above a flower motif on the other.
- Issuer or group
- Dobunni (Western region)
- Metal
- Silver unit
- Date (record)
- 50 BC–AD 43 (record range)
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 2024
- Specimen
- PAS 824166
- Specimen size
- Not in the record. The model is about 13.3 mm across, estimated from the scale in the photograph.
Obverse. 'Moon head' facing right (record). Not reconstructed
Reverse. Stylised horse left with a flower motif below (record). Not reconstructed
The design on both faces is too worn on the only licensed photograph to reconstruct. The as-minted faces are shown plain and marked as not reconstructed.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pellet in a ring | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A raised dot inside a ring, near the centre of the face. |
| 2 | Radiating lines | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Straight raised lines running out from the ring towards the upper right. |
In the record but not modelled
- Moon head: Named in the record for the obverse; not visible on this photo.
- Stylised horse left: Named in the record for the reverse; not visible on this photo.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Heavy: the obverse has no readable design and the reverse keeps only a central motif.
- Corrosion
- Grey, granular surface with reddish-brown spots.
- Strike
- Cannot be judged from this photo.
- Completeness
- Complete, with a small nick in the edge at the top.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred (no weight or thickness recorded): set to 8.5% of the diameter.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Anni Byard / Oxfordshire County Council, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1250802915), licensed CC BY 2.0. Changes: the two faces were cut out of the photograph, rotated and rescaled to a common frame, and used to make an interpretive 3D reconstruction. Depth, the edge and unseen surfaces are inferred, not measured. The as-minted version is further cleaned, restored and recoloured by us.
SHA-256 of the archived original: 2b3071ed8bbc7cf7ac9340ba28fab92285396f0f83b7bec51629c0173da4dc4a. Retrieved 2026-10-16.