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Auction: 15007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 892

Celtic, Cantii, Dubnovellaunus, (c.25 BC-AD 5), silver Unit, 1.01g, 'Bull and Bird' type, fore-portion of horse arranged in a spiral, pellets and dvbn[ovalla...] around, rev. bull right butting corn ear, bird on back, sun ring above, symbols below (ABC 327; VA-; S.-), horn silver patinated over this, metal a little porous below, deep strike and with much imagery on flan, good very fine, excessively rare

provenance
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 15.0002
Found Kent

This new discovery displays more reverse imagery than the few known specimens of this type. The interpretation of this imagery is open to speculation. It has been suggested that this short lived issue represents the corn ear of Cunobelin being attacked by the bull of Dubnovellaunus. It could, therefore, be representative of the power struggles between the tribes north and south of the Thames.

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£800