LOT 2374
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Pinarius Natta - Celtic Copy AR Denarius 2nd-1st century B.C.
Obv: helmeted head of Roma right, X behind. Rev: Victory in biga right with NATATA below with second AT in monogram; ROMA in exergue. Good very fine.(3.85 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s.
Property of a Harrow, UK, gentleman.
Cf. RSC Pinaria 1; Sear 89 for prototype.
FootnotesA good quality copy of a Republican denarius of 149 BC by a Celtic hand; the main difference being the erroneous spelling of the moneyer name as NATATA (or NATAAT) in place of the normal NATTA.
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LOT 2374
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Pinarius Natta - Celtic Copy AR Denarius
Sold for (Inc. bp): £47
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Celtic Iron Age Coins - Iceni - Bury Helmet - AR Unit Late 1st century B.C.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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. 1.31 grams.
Very fine. Rare.
Found Suffolk, UK. -
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Iceni - Freckenham Flower - Crescent Type Gold Stater 1st century B.C.
Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
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. 5.47 grams.
Good fine. Rare.
Property of a Colchester, UK, collector. -
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Celtic - Iberian - AR Tetradrachm 2nd-1st century B.C.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £139
Obv: degraded bust right. Rev: horse left. 9.61 grams.
Good very fine.
Ex UK private collection.
