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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1006

Iron Age Britain, Atrebates and Regni, Uninscribed Coinage (c. 60-40 BC), 'Three Wheel' Type, AV Quarter-Stater, c. 50-35 BC, "Rudd's East Wiltshire Group" centred at Durocornovium [?], debased laureate head of Apollo right, rev. triple-tailed horse right, 'no mane' variety, wheel motif above and below, spike piercing neck, [Spink XRF: 56.91% Au; 24.84% Ag; 18.25% Cu; No trace Fe], 1.272g [19.63grns], 9h (Atrebatic B; Allen "Minor Cantonal Grouping"; Bean QcT1-3; VA 224-1; Mack 64; BMC 498-501; ABC 2093 ["ER" ~ attributed to Cornovii]; Spink 48), struck on an irregular but largely elliptical flan, otherwise on a richer honey-golden fabric, with much residual lustre in fields interspersed among die breaks, very fine, very rare

Provenance

Found at Hartley Mauditt, Worldham (East Hampshire), Sunday 22 October 2017

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£300

Starting price
£350