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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 10

Celtic, Sills Cf insular coinage, (c.80-50 BC), gold Quarter Stater, 1.46g, 'Boat Tree' type, two figures in boat, heavy 'Corieltavian' wreath below, rev. heavy bar across central field, abstract symbols around (ABC-; Sills Cf2, Class 1; VA 69-1; S.46 var.), obverse slightly off centre, light general wear and with some earth in recesses, generally well presented, very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Bt. Glover, 16 April 2000
Found Hevedon nr. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

This piece is the quarter of Sills' Insular Cf stater (ABC 515) and in his own words is; '...probably the earliest regular British gold coinage.' (Sills, 2003).

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Sold for
£500