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Ring Money
The collection record classifies this work as coins. It is dated c. 100–50 BCE. Recorded culture or place: England.
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- Museum title
- Ring Money
- Date
- c. 100–50 BCE
- Culture / origin
- England
- Materials and technique
- gold
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1.8 cm (11/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1969.142
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Used in the ancient world from c. 1600 BC, gold ring money was also in general use in Ireland around 100-50 BC. It was used in Britain as well but not to the same extent. This piece was found at Norman Leighton, Warwickshire, almost the central county of England. As a means of exchange, gold was scarce in Britain until successive waves of invaders from the mainland, fleeing the expanding power of the Romans, brought with them degraded staters, an ancient gold coin of the Greeks.
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