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Auction 15049  2 December 2015
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Lot 373

Starting price: 1600 GBP
Price realized: 8000 GBP
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Celtic, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, Cunobelin, (c.10-40 AD), gold Stater, 5.39g, 'Classic' type, garnished corn ear with central stalk flanked by ca mv, rev. Romanized horse right, crescent moon above, cvno on groundline and dotted 'earth' effect below (ABC 2801 - this coin; VA-; S.-), flan slightly irrregularl, small scrape on horse's rump, generally remarkably well presented, good centring both sides, the Romanized horse particularly appealing, nearly extremely fine, an excessively rare piece. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
provenance
Bt. Dix Noonan Webb, 5 October 2009, lot 5148
Recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, ref. CCI 04. 2177
Found nr. Slough, Berkshire

The style in which the horse is cut on this piece is distinctly different to the rest of the Cunobelin series.


Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00
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