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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 385

Iron Age Britain, Catuvellauni, Tasciovanos (25 BC - AD 9), AR Unit, 'Stag' type, Verlamion [Prae Hill, St Albans], TASC inscribed on central tablet, parallel and curved lines emanating therefrom, rev. Stag left, head backturned, VER before, pellet-in-annulet above rump, 1.35g [20.8grns], 9h, 32mm. x 20mm. (VA -; BMC -; Spink -; ABC 2634), the obverse overtly off-struck on an elliptical flan of full weight, otherwise richly soil-toned with handsome bluish-gunmetal patination, about extremely fine for issue, excessively rare, especially in this exemplary state

Provenance

Found on unscheduled and cultivated farmland, abutting an Iron Age fort near Blunsdon, North Swindon, October 2022

~ Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme [ref. WILT-252DD3] ~

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Starting price
£600