Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 5. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelin. Circa AD 10-43. AV Stater (5.45 g, 2h). CA-MV across field, grain ear / CVNO, horse prancing left; branch above. Van Arsdell 2029-1; Hobbs 1834-5; SCBC 289. CCI 961333 (this coin). VF, some die wear on obverse. Very rare with horse left.

Ex Bury St. Edmunds Hoard, Autumn 1990.

One of 31 Cunobeline staters found scattered in a field, recorded at the British Museum and returned to the finder; for report, see The Searcher, April 1991, pp. 42-46.