LOT 2791
Celtic Britannia. Durotriges AV Quarter Stater. Circa 50-30 BC. Duro Boat Gold type.
Three-men-in-a-boat motif; pellet rosette motif to left / Central thunderbolt, Y-shape either side, uncertain object to each side. ABC 2205; VA 1225; BMC 414-18; SCBC 368. Near Extremely Fine.(1.45gr, 12mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private East Anglian collection formed since the 1980s.
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Celtic Central Gaul. Santones AE Quadrans. Circa 40 AD. CONTOVTOS type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Romanised male head to right with short hair; CONTOVTOS (NT ligate) before / She-wolf leaping to right; below, bucranium(?); behind, bush. LT 4316; DT 3721. 1.16gr, 13mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
Ex Chris Rudd, LL53, lot 16, ref. num.12523 (dealer's tickets included). Ex Don Lee collection. Found in Maidenhead, Berkshire; November 1999. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Celtic Southwest Gaul. Tolosates Fourrée Drachm. 125-80 BC. 'À la tête négroide'' type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £56
Stylised head to left, 'negroid' type, the hair represented by a row of 's' resting on a row of Y-shaped ears / Boulet cross in the centre, formed of four cantons each adorned with a lunette: annulet in one canton, pellet in the others. LT 2986; BN 2976-3240; SCBC 75. 2.17gr, 15mm.
Good Very Fine.
Ex cgb.fr (company's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Celtic Britannia. Cantiaci Cast Potin Unit. Circa 90-60 BC. Three Dots type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Linear head to left, three dots in centre / Stylised bull to left. ABC 162; VA 122; BMC-; SCBC 63. 1.19gr, 16mm, 4h.
Good Very Fine. Broken. Excessively rare; no other examples on CoinArchives.
Ex Chris Rudd, LL33, lot 19, ref. no.12923 (dealer's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
One of the rarest of Kentish potins. This specimen is desirable because it displays a neat casting tang and because striations are clearly visible on the obverse, caused by a piece of wood used to smooth off the unbaked clay casting mould before the lines of the head were scribed.
