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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1012

Iron Age Britain, Uninscribed Coinage (c. 80-50 BC), "Insular Series CF", Stater, Kentish Issues, degraded profile of Apollo right, rev. horse right, abstract rider above with numerous large pellets, eye with pellet border behind, 4.98g, 12h, 12mm. x 2mm. diameter/thickness (VA -; Mack -; BMC -; Sills 457-459; ABC 515; Spink 20A), bent and scuffed with evidence of waterwear, otherwise largely centred on an elliptical flan, struck details about fine but rather rough, nevertheless very rare, one of the earliest native struck gold coins with a secure British provenance

Provenance

Found in North West Leicestershire, 7 February 2017

~ Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, ref. LEIC-9C54D5 ~

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£280