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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 388

Celtic, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, Cunobelin, (c.10-40 AD), silver Unit, 1.18g, 'Horse-Dog' type, cam in panel, v above, l below, all bordered by pelleted outer circle with solid outer circle both sides, rev. horse-like dog crouched left, branch above, groundline and cvno below (ABC 2852 - this coin; VA-; S.-), obverse slightly off centre, the metal surviving remarkably well and with underlying tones, a pleasing strike, nearly extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance
Bt. Rudd, 24 January 1999
Chris Rudd list 38, 1998, no 66 (this coin referred to in ABC)
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 98.2003
Found Heybridge, Essex

This piece was the first example of ABC 2852 to appear in Chris Rudd's list at which point just six others were known.

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