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LOT 2576
Celtic Britannia. The Iceni AR Half Unit. Circa 35-25 BC.
Stylised boar to right, front leg comprised of two lines; pellet in ring below, three pellets to right / Celticized annulate horse to right with round head; pellet rosette above, three(?) pellets below. ABC 1621; cf. Van Arsdell 661.1; SCBC 437. Near Very Fine.(0.61gr, 11mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceAcquired from a Norfolk, UK, collector.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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LOT 2576
Celtic Britannia. The Iceni AR Half Unit.
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
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Celtic Britannia. Trinovantes and Catuvellauni, Trocc AE Unit. Circa AD 10-20?
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
'Troccos Bull' type. Augustan style head to left, [CVNO before], pellet-in-ring beneath chin (partially shown) / Bull butting to right, pellet-in-ring above, TR[OCC] and pellet-in-ring (partially shown) below, pellets around. ABC 2996; Van Arsdell 1985-1; SCBC 341. 1.34gr, 15mm, 10h.
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Trocc(os?) or Trocc(ios?), formerly read as TASC by Mack and Van Arsdell, is probably an ancient British personal name which may mean something like 'crippled' or 'lame' or perhaps 'cut short' as in the word 'truncated'. Of the eight provenanced examples of this bronze unit four were found in Essex, three in Suffolk. Was Trocc(os?) an early associate of Cunobelinus who ruled briefly in the eastern part of his kingdom? He could have been an influential relation of Tasciovanos or Dubnovellaunos, possibly reformed, dwarfish of physically disabled (hence his unflattering name), who was initially tolerated by Cunobelinus and then deposed (ABC, note p. 142). -
Celtic Gaul. Aedui (?) AR Unit. 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Helmetted(?) head to left / Horse to left; wheel below. Cf. D&T 3189; cf. Depeyrot, NC IV, 197. 1.92gr, 13mm.
Fair.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
![Group of Ten [10] AE Celtic Coins.](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/225124-s.jpg)
Group of Ten [10] AE Celtic Coins. 3rd-2nd century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Mainly imitations of Maroneia, Thrace issues. 19.30gr total.
Fine to Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
