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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 159

Celtic, Atrebates and Regni, Verica, (c.10-40 AD), silver Unit, 1.05g, 'Smiley' type, com.f across field, voided crescent moon and ring-pellets above and below, all within beaded border rev. boar right, rosette of pellets above, vir and groundline below (ABC 1220 var.; Bean VERC1-9 var.; VA 470-1 var.; S.131 var.), dark patina, slightly patchy in places, wear to centres, reverse well presented, , nearly very fine/good very fine, this variety with rose above boar and reading VIR excessively rare, only three others recorded

provenance
Bt. Perkins, 17 January 2008
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 04.2400

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Sold for
£300