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Epaticcus Corn Ear Warrior gold stater
Coin 14 · Epaticcus (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
A gold stater naming Epaticcus. One face carries an ear of corn between the letters TAS and CIF; the other shows a horseman riding right with EPATI below.
- Issuer or group
- Epaticcus (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
- Metal
- Gold stater
- Date (record)
- AD 10–45 (source record; hoard context, not a precise issue date)
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 1343; VA 575; BMC 2021–2023
- Specimen
- PAS 966504, hoard coin no. 20
- Specimen size
- 17.5 mm across, 5.3 g (from the record)
Obverse. Ear of corn with TAS to the left and CIF to the right.
Reverse. Warrior on horseback riding right, with EPATI (from EPATICCV) below.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ear of corn | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | The central ear of corn, with its grains in rows and a stalk at the base. |
| 2 | Letters TAS | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | TAS to the left of the corn ear. |
| 3 | Letters CIF | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | CIF to the right of the corn ear; the letters are worn but readable. |
| 4 | Rider | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | The warrior's upper body above the horse. |
| 5 | Horse riding right | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | The horse, moving to the right, under the rider. |
| 6 | Letters EPATI | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | EPATI below the horse. The record's full reading is EPATICCV; the last letters are not visible on this flan. |
| 7 | Pellet border | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A row of raised dots (pellets) along the lower edge. |
In the record but not modelled
- Spear and shield: Named in the record; not separable in the photo, so not marked.
- Letters CCV of EPATICCV: In the record's reading; not visible on this flan.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Light: fine detail of the corn ear and the rider survives.
- Corrosion
- Little; some dark spots and discoloured patches on the corn-ear face.
- Strike
- Off-centre on the horseman face: part of the design runs off the flan at the top.
- Completeness
- Complete flan; slightly irregular outline.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred from the recorded weight and outline area, assuming about 15.0 g/cm³ for the broad metal.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Katie Hinds / Hampshire Cultural Trust, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1038332302), 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: 8b460a5ace6cce7fcd0f30e877afeda701f282882bef92ad7675338c4f533b98. Retrieved 2026-10-16.