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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1002

Iron Age Britain, Belgae, Uninscribed Coinage (c. 60-40 BC), "Burgan II" Type, AV Quarter-Stater, stylised wreath with finely engraved leaves pointing inward to hooked hair-bar, 'bird-feet' hair strands, interlocking crescents and bucranium in lower quarter, rev. triple-tailed annulate horse right, no mane, and flared nostril, sunburst above, pelleted-annulet and back-to-back crescent moon below and before [Spink XRF: 41.26% Au; 36.13% Ag; 22.31% Cu; 0.30% Fe], 1.24g, 12h (cf. Divided Kingdoms [2017], no. 267 = CCI 97.0764 ["2 Known"]; Mack -; VA -; BMC -; ABC - [cf. 818]; Spink -), minor striking splits, otherwise beautifully centred on an elliptical flan, an extremely important addition to the Belgic-derivate corpus of coinage centred around Danebury, a pleasingly good very fine / the reverse marginally less so, OF THE HIGHEST RARITY

Provenance

Found in the Test Valley (Hampshire), Saturday 4 November, 2023

~ Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, ref. CCI 23.???? ~

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£450