Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1350. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Tasciovanus. Circa 20 BC-AD 10. Æ Double Unit (5.40 g, 12h). Struck circa 5 BC-AD 10. Male head right; TΛSCIΛ-VΛ around / Pegasus left, raising foreleg; T-Λ-S around. Van Arsdell 1818-1; SCBC 241. CCI 981997 (this coin). VF, green patina, light deposits, sharply struck. Very rare.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection. Ex Rudd 38 (1998), lot 57.

The date for this issue is based on parallels with the silver types in Kretz’s group E.