LOT 2563
Celtic Britannia. Thurrock Potin Unit. Circa 120-100 BC.
Chicken-Head type. Head to left / Degraded bull to right. ABC126; SCBC 62. Good Fine.(3.38gr, 18mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.
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Celts in Lower Danube AR Tetradrachm. Circa 300-100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Imitating Alexander III and Philip III of Macedon. Degraded head of Herakles to right / Stylised Zeus seated to left, holding eagle in right hand and sceptre with left. Cf. Lanz 910-932. 14.87gr, 28mm.
Fine.
From a private collection, UK. -
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Celtic Britannia. The Iceni AR Half Unit. Circa 35-25 BC.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
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. 0.61gr, 11mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired from a Norfolk, UK, collector. Property of an Essex gentleman. -
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).
