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Auction 21000 18 Mar 2021
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Iron Age Britain, Cantii, uninscribed issues (c. 50-20 BC), AR Unit, two heads facing with braided hair, stylized bull's head above and below, rev. horse leaping left, yoke (?) above, uncertain symbol below, 0.94g, 300°, 13mm (ABC 216; VA -), irregular flan with a hairline crack, otherwise toned, good very fine.
provenance
Ealing, CNG Mailbid 111, 29 May 2019, lot 1029
Rudd, FPL 89, September 2006, no. 9
~ Found in the Darenth Valley (Kent), 2006 ~
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This very rare type would later serve as the prototype for Type 37 Sceattas. For further reading, see: 'Insular Numismatics: the relationship between Ancient British and Early Anglo-Saxon Coins': Anna Gannon, in 'Barbaric Splendour: The use of image before and after Rome' (eds. Toby F. Martin with Wendy Morrison), pp. 121-139
Estimate: £1000 - £800
provenance
Ealing, CNG Mailbid 111, 29 May 2019, lot 1029
Rudd, FPL 89, September 2006, no. 9
~ Found in the Darenth Valley (Kent), 2006 ~
,
This very rare type would later serve as the prototype for Type 37 Sceattas. For further reading, see: 'Insular Numismatics: the relationship between Ancient British and Early Anglo-Saxon Coins': Anna Gannon, in 'Barbaric Splendour: The use of image before and after Rome' (eds. Toby F. Martin with Wendy Morrison), pp. 121-139
Estimate: £1000 - £800