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LOT 2547
Celtic Britannia. Iceni AR Unit. Circa AD 50-100. Early Uninscribed. Boar/Horse type.
Stylised boar to right, rings above long bristles on boar's back, pellets below and before / Horse prancing to right, ladder mane, pellet triad beneath arc from neck to rump above, star below. ABC 1579; BMC 3455-3472; Van Arsdell 657-3; SCBC 431. Good Very Fine.(1.06gr, 14mm, 6h.).
Provenance
Ex Mike Vosper, London Coin Fair, 7 May 2011.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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