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Auction: 17005 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 4

Cantii, uninscribed coinage (c. 50-25BC), silver Unit, 0.93g, profile heads facing, annulet ornaments between, rev. horse left, horns above (VA -; ABC 216; S. -), minor loss of flan, otherwise good very fine, very rare

provenance
Bt. Rudd, 7 July 2008
Found Kent
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 08.9172

This specimen is of particular numismatic interest being the first known example of its type to exhibit the full iconography displayed above the horse. Instead of depicting the full head of a bucranium, the design is confirmed as a more simplistic pair of bull's horns with annulet tips

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Sold for
£800