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LOT 2026

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,472


Celtic Iron Age Coins - Iceni - Antedios - Triple Moon Gold Stater 10-30 AD

Obv: three opposed crescents, pellet at centre and at cusps, enclosed by six arcs with trefoil or quatrefoil of pellets in angles. Rev: horse right with mane of dashes, W-shaped forelegs, pellet under tail and 'lyre' symbol above, with double-ringed solar motif above and with large pellet and ANTED monogram below. 5.43 grams.

Extremely fine; as struck, full flan and details. Extremely rare (only fifteen others recorded).

PROVENANCE:
The Brodie Hall, Kent, UK collection; acquired Chris Rudd (with envelope and ticket); found Norfolk, before 2009.

PUBLISHED:
Chris Rudd, List 108, number 32 (this coin).

LITERATURE:
S. 440; BMC 3790; ABC 1639.

FOOTNOTES:
Chris Rudd notes: 'Still looking as sharp as the day it was minted two-thousand years ago, this is unquestionably one of the prettiest Anted Triple Moons staters we have seen........ Today it is generally thought that the Anted in East Anglia was not the same king as the Anted in the Cotswolds. Dr Philip de Jersey says: "The Anted staters all appear to be from the same reverse die, which might suggest that this is really a very scarce issue"'.