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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 295

Celtic, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, uninscribed coinage, (c.60-20 BC), silver Unit 1.22g, 'Lister's Celtic Head' type, bust right, with corded hair and moustache, small horse, ring-pellets, and various symbols before rev. horse right, wing motif and trefoils of pellets above, ring-pellet below, pelletal sun before (ABC 2478; VA 1540-1; S.-), die flaw to horse's head on reverse, a touch of irregularity to the flan, this piece, however, remarkably strong and in the highest quality silver, gentle underlying tones, extremely fine and as struck, extremely rare

provenance
Bt. Gillis, 3 January 2001
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 01.0476

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Sold for
£1,800