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Celtic Anglo-Gallic GB5 - Suessiones - Gold Stater
Circa 1st century BC. Obv: wreath design with 'face' symbol above crescents. Rev: triple-tailed horse right with charioteer's arm and showing and 'wheel' below. This issue was the protoype from which the British SO5-6 Selsey Two-Faced type was apparently copied (see S. 38). Gold, 6.07 grams.
Extremely fine, extremely rare thus.
LITERATURE:
S. -; ABC 25; V. -. BMC 447.