LOT 2783
Celtic Britannia. Corieltauvi AR Half Unit. Mid-late 1st century BC. Uninscribed. South Ferriby Boar type.
Simplified boar to right, ring of pellets above, rings around / Horse to right, pelletal sun ring above, pellet-in ring before. Cf. ABC 1800 (Unit); cf. VA 875.2 (same); SCBC 397. Very Fine. Apparently unpublished as Half Unit.(0.55gr, 11mm.).
ProvenanceEx Graham Slater collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Good Very Fine. Lightly toned.
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Good Very Fine.
Ex Chris Rudd, LL43, lot 8, ref. no.10648 (dealer's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
