Details
LOT 2255
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Iceni - Bury Helmet - AR Unit Late 1st century B.C.
Obv: helmeted(?) female head right with pellet triad behind eye and three pellets before face. Rev: horse left with pellet-in-annulet and traces of pellet rosette above and pellet-in-annulet and two small annulets below; double ground line with doubled pellets within. Very fine. Rare.(1.31 grams.). [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Suffolk, UK.
Literature
S. 432; BMC 3528-3532; ABC 1498.
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