LOT 2846
Celtic Central Gaul. Santones AE Quadrans. Circa 40 AD. CONTOVTOS type.
Romanised male head to right with short hair; CONTOVTOS (NT ligate) before / She-wolf leaping to right; below, bucranium(?); behind, bush. LT 4316; DT 3721. Near Very Fine.(1.16gr, 13mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceEx Chris Rudd, LL53, lot 16, ref. num.12523 (dealer's tickets included).
Ex Don Lee collection.
Found in Maidenhead, Berkshire; November 1999.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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Celtic Britannia. Iceni AV Stater. Circa 20 BC-AD 40. Freckenham Crescents type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Solid back-to-back crescents, row of pellets projecting from each concave side; V-shape at each point of the crescent, pellet triad above and below / Horse to right with round head and closed mouth; star below, solar ring above, pellet triad each side. ABC 1447; VA 620-7; SCBC 426. 5.37gr, 18mm.
Very Fine.
From a private East Anglian collection formed since the 1980s. -
Celtic Northeast Gaul. Remi Potin Unit. Circa 100-50 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Bucranium; pellet-in-crescents above, S-ornaments flanking / Bear(?) to right, trampling on serpent(?). Depeyrot, NC VII, 34; D&T 221; CCCBM III 511-8. 5.07gr, 21mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex cgb.fr (company's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Celtic Britannia. Corieltauvi AR Half Unit. 1st century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Uncertain design / Horse standing to left, pellet-in-pelleted circle above. 0.48gr, 11mm.
Very Fine.
Ex Graham Slater collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
