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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1003

Iron Age Britain, Belgae, Uninscribed Coinage (c. 60-40 BC), 'Danebury Scrolls' Type, AV Quarter-Stater, scroll-like flourishes around central cogwheel sun; pellet-in-rings visible in angles, rev. annulate horse left, wheel above, pellet-in-ring to right; floral sun below horse formed of a pellet-in-ring with nine petals, [Spink XRF: 47.07% Au; 20.52% Ag; 32.12% Cu; 0.29% Fe], 0.996g [15.37grns] (Bean QcT3-3; VA -; Mack -; BMC 539; ABC 791; Spink -), partial striking softness to peripheries otherwise on a handsome rose-gold fabric, on an elliptical flan, about very fine, extremely rare

Provenance

Found at Selbourne (East Hampshire), Sunday 2 April 2017

~ Recorded with the Hampshire Cultural Trust, ref. WINCM 447 = PAS HAMP-7A3206 ~

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Estimate
£500 to £700

Starting price
£450