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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 219

Celtic, Dobunni, Bodvoc, (c.25-5 BC), silver Unit, 1.15g, 'Young Head' type, portrait left, pellet and bodvoc before, large boss behind, rev. horse right, ring-pellet and other symbols above, sun ring and pellets below, boss before (ABC 2042; VA 1057-1; S.389), a detector find with the slightest flan loss behind bust, light porosity and patination on this, however, the strike is superb and in high relief, a pleasing extremely fine, very rare and this probably the finest known example of the type

provenance
Bt. Bentley, 11 May 1998
Found nr. Stourbridge, Worcestershire

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