Details
LOT 2987
Celtic Britannia. Iceni AR Unit. Circa AD 20-43. Norfolk God Moustache type.
Male head right, with short spiky hair and boarskin headdress./ Horse right, with cabled mane, cabled pelta above, kite shape below. ABC 1567; VA 792, 794; BMC 3605-759; S 434. Near Extremely Fine. Toned silver, sharply struck, well centred.(0.91gr, 13mm, 8h.).
Provenance
Found Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK.
Ex Chris Rudd, 118, lot 24, ref. no.13444.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
Footnotes
This superb specimen clearly displays the downward-curving moustache and the characteristic crest of boar-like bristles which seem to indicate that the deity is wearing a boarskin headdress.
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