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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 222

Celtic, Dobunni, Corio, (c.20 BC-AD 10), gold Quarter Stater, 1.16g, 'Cor' type, cor across central field, rev. horse right, sun ring and ring-pellet above, animal? below, ring-pellet before (ABC 2051; VA 1039-1; S.394), a couple of flan splits on this, light wear to centres, a quality piece for this issue with a particularly good obverse, usually weak, lustre to reverse, nearly extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance
Bt. Mills, 21 March 1993

the fields on this reverse die looks to have been gouged manually, the effect of which can still clearly be seen.

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