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Gaulish potin coinage
GC Boon (unpublished coin report) "The Massalia derivative, a coin which for some years was thought to be a Greek Imperial' (as in Boon 1967, 310, 'Gordian III) but yielded at last to cleaning. The type had already been represented in South Wales by an example from Merthyr Mawr (80.5H) on the Glamorgan coast, and both pieces - the Caerwent specimen, of course far from its original context, in the late layer of this Roman house - may well have reached Britain by the same route that brought stray coins of the Curiosolitae of Brittany. A common place component of small change over a wide area of Gaul, becoming in time almost unrecognizably derived from its prototype, this kind of Gaulish cast potin has been called British by R. Van Arsdell; but that is wrong-headed, as the South Wales finds help to show."
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Site Name: Pound Lane, Caerwent
Notes: Schedule B - room III. 12, House VII. 26N (in soil accumulated above mosaic)