Stater: Wreath, Crescents, and Wheel (obverse); Horse and Diamond (reverse) (10 BCE–30 CE): Art, History and Details

Stater: Wreath, Crescents, and Wheel (obverse); Horse and Diamond (reverse) (10 BCE–30 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The Coritani were a Belgic tribe which occupied parts of middle-eastern England now known as the counties of Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and probably parts of Derbyshire and the southern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. At one time this type, together with others of the Ancient British series, were ascribed to the Brigantes, a tribe occupying parts of Yorkshire and territory north thereof.

Object facts

• Title: Stater: Wreath, Crescents, and Wheel (obverse); Horse and Diamond (reverse)
• Date: 10 BCE–30 CE
• Culture: England, Corieltauvi
• Type: Coins
• Technique: gold
• Dimensions: Diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Numismatics
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1969.157

A detail from the museum

The Corieltauvi were a largely agricultural people who had been producing coins since the beginning of the 1st century.

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Emery May Norweb. English Gold Coins, Ancient to Modern Times, On Loan to the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Norweb Collection. 1968.
• Emery May Norweb Collection (Cleveland, Ohio), Emery May Norweb, C. E. Blunt, F. Elmore Jones, and R. P. Mack. Collection of Ancient British, Romano-British and English Coins. London: Spink, 1971.

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