SUESSIONES

The Suessiones ‘six peoples’ lived around the river Aisne (Axona ‘river’). Capital: Noviodunum ‘new fort’, modern Siossons (Aisne, Picardy) which is named after the tribe. Caesar says that Diviciacos ruled the Suessiones nostra etiam memoria and that he previously had control over a large area of Britain (BG II, 4).

Soissons Eye Boar. Suessiones. c.60-30 BC. Cast potin. 18mm. 4.23g. Stylised head facing right, scroll in front, within plain circle./ Stylised boar facing right, forming large hidden eye motif, ring behind, crescent of seven blobs below, within expanded neck torc. ABC 85, LT 7905, BMC 444-447, DT 531a. VF, boldly cast with rich black patina. A super-sharp specimen. Ex Anthony Levine collection. Found Cambourne, Berks. EXTREMELY RARE as UK find.                                                           Was £275. Now only £250