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LOT 2985
Celtic Britannia. Iceni AV Quarter Stater. Circa 10 BC-AD 5. Irstead Smiler type.
Branches projecting from latticed square / Long-legged horse right, beaded mane, crescent 'smile' above, ringed-pellet below. ABC 1480; VA-; BMC 3437-38; S 430. Good Very Fine. Chunky flan of warm cuprous gold, fabulous well centred horse.(1.12gr, 9mm, 4h.).
Provenance
Found Stonea Grange, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Ex Bernard Winstanley collection.
Ex Chris Rudd, 134, lot 25, ref. no.17753.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
Footnotes
This is the gold quarter that accompanies the above Crescent Type Freckenham Flower gold stater. Note that both stater and quarter have the same 'open-headed' horse. On this richly toned example you can see four pellet-eyes of two hidden faces.
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