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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 528

Celtic, uninscribed coinage, AR Unit, 1.14g., Danebury group, mid-late 1st century B.C., head right with line across forehead, hair in tight curls with small pellet in hair above line, trace of collar below, rev. horse right, tail comprising two lines, two ringed pellets below tail, boar right and pellets below horse, ringed pellet above horse´s back, large eye behind severed head above (BMC.577; Mack -, cf. 87; S.-, cf. 53-4; VA-), weak on the horse´s head, other elements of the design better visible than on other specimens of this rare type; nearly very fine, extremely rare Estimate £ 300-400 Listed as coin 07.0504 on the Celtic Coin Index. There are but four other specimens registered in the Index so far from the same dies - 83.0092, 93.0344, 95.1032 and 98.1897. This is probably the clearest of all the specimens, and the only one showing the large eye behind the head -sometimes described as severed - above the horse.

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£400