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Auction: 15049 - Celtic Coins from the Geoff Cottam Collection
Lot: 430

Celtic, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, Agr, (c.35-43? AD), silver Unit, 1.41g, 'Bitch' type, agr across central field, garnished wreath border, rev. bitch right fighting? snake, groundline and agr below (ABC 3005; VA-; S.354), some porosity on this, scrape and fragile periphery before AGR on obverse, essential devices clear and a good sized flan, good very fine, excessively rare

provenance
Bt. McAndrew, 9 September 2001
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 94.0881
Found Colchester, Essex

This is possibly the finest known AGR unit and certainly compares favourably to the Spink and ABC plate coins.

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Sold for
£800