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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 373

Celtic, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, Cunobelin, (c.10-40 AD), gold Stater, 5.39g, 'Classic' type, garnished corn ear with central stalk flanked by ca mv, rev. Romanized horse right, crescent moon above, cvno on groundline and dotted 'earth' effect below (ABC 2801 - this coin; VA-; S.-), flan slightly irrregularl, small scrape on horse's rump, generally remarkably well presented, good centring both sides, the Romanized horse particularly appealing, nearly extremely fine, an excessively rare piece

provenance
Bt. Dix Noonan Webb, 5 October 2009, lot 5148
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 04. 2177
Found nr. Slough, Berkshire

The style in which the horse is cut on this piece is distinctly different to the rest of the Cunobelin series.



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£8,000