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Auction: 17007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 8

Corieltavi, Lat Ison (c. AD 40-47), base core gold plated Stater, 3.38g, lat ison retrograde in central frieze, rosettes and wreath across fields, rev. lunate and pellet-styled horse, retrograde lettering in tablet above, and in field below (VA - ; BMC -; S.423; ABC 1956), light edge nibbling, otherwise good very fine and of the highest rarity

provenance
Found 'on farmland close to the River Trent', Lincolnshire, 1996
Recorded with Ashmolean Museum, ref. CCI 07.2334

lat ison is one of the last and consequently more mysterious inscriptions to appear on the native coinage emanating from Corieltavi territory at the time of the Claudian conquest. Rudd opines that such might in fact be a reflection of two names combined as he has also surmised for the previous avnt cost issues. Whatever the true intentions of the inscription the few known examples all display its form in retrograde and all but one on gold plated cores.

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Estimate
£3,000 to £3,500