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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1008

Iron Age Britain, Catuvellauni, Tasciovanus (25 BC - AD 9), AV Stater, "Warrior" Type, TASCIOV RIGON in two lines of tablet set on straight corn ear, linear 'sprays' in angles, rev. warrior in chain mail riding left, spear and sword in hand, sun wheel below and ring-pellet before, 5.476g, 3h (CCI 00.0310 same obverse die [Braughing, Herts]; CCI 00.1063 = C Rudd FPL 52, no. 60 same obverse die [Mildenhall, Wilts]; Cottam 318 same obverse die [Milton Keynes, Bucks]; Evans 8.8; Mack 184; VA 1780-1, 3; Hobbs 1628; Spink 219; ABC 2577), a beautiful example and superbly balanced, minute striking fissures to peripheries of peach-yellow surfaces, a trace of die wear exposing copper hues on highest points, otherwise gloriously lustrous, about extremely fine, of the highest rare, especially with the TASCIOV reading

Provenance

Found at Hockliffe (Bedfordshire), 3 September 2023





This coinage originated in the region north of the Thames and to the east, with distribution centering on Essex and Hertfordshire. The Northern Region is associated with the Trinovantes and the Catuvellauni tribes. The obverse has the inscription 'TASCIOV RICON', Hobbs (1996, p19) argues that RICON could be a variation of 'REX' and mean 'KING'. The coin is concave in shape on the reverse. The reverse depicts a horse facing left with a helmeted rider, his right arm raised holding a sword and a shield in his left hand. There is a ring and dot under the belly of the horse.

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Sold for
£10,000

Starting price
£5000