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LOT 2252
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Iceni - Freckenham Flower - Crescent Type Gold Stater 1st century B.C.
Obv: three-petal flower with pellet centre within hollow cruciform with incurved sides and three pellets to each arm with curved line in angles. Rev: horse right with open head and upper legs with pellet triad above and large hollow crescent with zig-zag lines and pellets over with wheel and pellet triad below. Good fine. Rare.(5.47 grams.).
Provenance
Property of a Colchester, UK, collector.
Literature
S. 428; BMC 3396-3404; ABC 1423.
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LOT 2252
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Iceni - Freckenham Flower - Crescent Type Gold Stater
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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