CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Caratacus. Circa AD 43-51. AR Unit (12mm, 1.21 g, 1h). Eagle (Atrebatic M) type. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; ornament to left, CARA to right / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings displayed, on serpent right; pellet-in-annulet to upper right. Van Arsdell 593-1; ABC 1376; SCBC 364; SCBI 16 (Norweb), 24a (this coin). Toned. Good VF. Nice metal. Rare.
From the James & Martha Robertson Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery, 9 September 2006. Ex Stack's (7 March 2006), lot 562; Emory May Norweb Collection (Part I, Spink 45, 13 June 1985), lot 12; Henry R. Mossop Collection.