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Verica Running Boar silver minim
Coin 12 · Verica (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
A small silver minim of Verica. One face has a cross with a central boss and crescents between the arms; the other shows a boar running, with the letter R below.
- Issuer or group
- Verica (Southern region: Atrebates and Regni)
- Metal
- Silver minim
- Date (record)
- AD 10–40
- Catalogue refs (record)
- ABC 1301; VA 510-5; BMC 1521–1523
- Specimen
- PAS 848646
- Specimen size
- Not in the record. The model is about 8.1 mm across, estimated from the scale in the photograph.
Cross face. Cross with a central boss in a ring, crescents in the angles (our description).
Boar face. Boar running, with R below and a group of pellets in front (our description).
The record does not say which face is the obverse; the faces are named by their designs, and the descriptions are ours.
Diameter and weight are not in the record.
Features
| # | Feature | Face | As-minted evidence | On the found coin | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cross | Cross face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | Raised arms running from the central ring towards the edges. |
| 2 | Central boss in a ring | Cross face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A ring with a raised dot at its centre, where the arms meet. |
| 3 | Crescent (upper left) | Cross face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A crescent in the upper left angle of the cross. |
| 4 | Crescent (upper right) | Cross face | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A crescent in the upper right angle, close to the edge. |
| 5 | Crescent (lower left) | Cross face | Observed in the photo | Partly visible on this find | A crescent in the lower left angle. |
| 6 | Running boar | Boar face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A boar with its body stretched out across the upper half of the face. |
| 7 | Ribbed line (bristles) | Boar face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A row of short parallel ribs along the boar's back. |
| 8 | Letter R | Boar face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A clear letter R below the boar. |
| 9 | Group of pellets | Boar face | Observed in the photo | Survives on this find | A small cluster of raised dots at the right edge. |
The found specimen
- Wear
- Light: the boar, the letter R and the crescents keep clear edges.
- Corrosion
- Bright silver surface with a small green spot near the R.
- Strike
- Both designs reasonably centred; edges of the designs run off the flan.
- Completeness
- Complete; slightly irregular round flan.
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 Katie Hinds / Hampshire Cultural Trust, via the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Wikimedia Commons (file page as retrieved, revision 925122643), 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: 0b5f8baac7c62dccca8e0978a5a2e965886334f3c3bb8a05595fc1bb7f4044a3. Retrieved 2026-10-16.