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Eppillus Rex / eagle silver unit
Coin 08 · Eppillus (Southern region: Regni and Atrebates)
A silver unit attributed to Eppillus. The record reads REX over a crescent over CALLE on one face, and EPP with an eagle on the other.
- Issuer or group
- Eppillus (Southern region: Regni and Atrebates)
- Metal
- Silver unit
- Date (record)
- 20 BC–AD 10
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 1160; BMC 1016–1056
- Specimen
- PAS 908007
- Specimen size
- 12.2 mm across, 1.4 g (from the record)
Obverse. REX over crescent over CALLE, pellet-in-ring before and behind (record).
Reverse. EPP behind an eagle with wings spread, pellet border (record).
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crescent | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A large crescent in the upper half. |
| 2 | Letters CALLE | Obverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Letters below the crescent, read as CALLE in the record; worn but recognisable in the full photo. |
| 3 | Eagle | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | The eagle's body, low in the field. The spread wings are hard to separate from the ribbed lines above. |
| 4 | Letters EPP | Reverse | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | Letter-like strokes at the upper left, which the record reads as EPP. |
In the record but not modelled
- REX: In the record; not visible on this flan, so not modelled.
- Pellet-in-ring before and behind: In the record; not located confidently in the photo.
- Pellet border: In the record; not located confidently in the photo.
The found specimen
- Wear
- Moderate.
- Corrosion
- Blue-green toned surface in the photo.
- Strike
- REX is not on the visible flan; it may be off the flan or worn away.
- Completeness
- Complete; irregular outline.
These are descriptions, not grades. Thickness in the model: inferred from the recorded weight and outline area, assuming about 10.0 g/cm³ for the broad metal.
Source and licence
Based on a photograph by Simon Maslin / Surrey County Council, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 1119101633), 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: 0b3c2f8a0ab060dc116ce1a20962fb39aa3e70c5f436705f7d896490fdf5e0c9. Retrieved 2026-10-16.