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Auction: 24121 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 34: Ancient Coins, featuring the Collection of Dr Hugh Shire - e-Auction
Lot: 2

Iceni, a Selection of Silver Units and Half Units (6): Antedios (c. AD 10-30) (3): i) double crescent emblem on vertical wreath, rev. horse to right, large oval head with pellet for eye, reversed S below head, corn-ear mane, two pellets below tail, dotted sun above, traces of ANTED monogram below, trefoil of pellets above T, 0.81g (ABC 1645; VA 711), porous but fine; ii) another, as before, 0.98g, clipped and slightly split to edge of flan, but relatively detailed, good fine or thereabouts; iii) another, as before, 0.76g, fragment split from unusually shaped flan, softened to reverse but otherwise a detailed bold fine (3); Uninscribed Issues (3): iv) AR Unit, 'Norfolk God' type, type, struck from c. AD 10, head right, with moustache, rev. horse prancing right, quadrilaterals, in ring above, with pelleted tips below, 0.88g (VA 792-94; Spink 434; ABC 1567), some deposits, about fine; v) 'Norfolk Boar' type, boar right, trefoil of pellets below, rev. well-rendered horse right, ring of dots above, plain below except exergual line (VA 655; Spink 431; ABC 1576), detailed, good fine; vi) Half Unit, 'Norfolk Ring Boar' type, boar right, ringed pellet below, rev. horse right, pellets around, 0.43g (ABC 1621; COI 56; Spink 437), lightly porous but otherwise detailed, a good fine; (6).

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£400

Starting price
£280