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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 112

Uninscribed coinage, Corieltauvi, c.55-45 BC, AR Unit, 1.44g, boar horse issues, Hostidius type, boar right without bristles on back, spear projecting from back, anemone above, object below boar, rev. horse left, pellet ring and pellet above, ring below (Mack 405; V.855; BMC 3193-3196; S.396), flaw below horse´s head, a most attractive example, roundly struck with all details, extremely fine, rare variety Estimate £ 150-200 Seaby/Spink Standard Catalogue Plate coin 1962- , S.50. See in BNJ XXIX, 1958, pp. 5-7, ´Four Ancient British Coins´ by CW Lister, this coin page 7 and plate XV, no. 9.

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£520