Among the Finest Known

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1356. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelin. Circa AD 10-43. Æ Unit (2.01 g, 2h). Struck circa AD 10-15. Coiled serpent with ram’s head; all within bezeled border / Horse springing left, head right; pellet and ram’s head above, ringed pellet to right, CAMVL monogram below; all within pelleted border. Van Arsdell 1965-1; SCBC 327. CCI 020481. Good VF, green-brown patina. Very rare and one of the finest known.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection. Ex Rudd 64 (July 2002), lot 77; Cotswold Collection; David Miller Collection.

Issued contemporary to the silver units of De Jersey, Silver, group A, and most likely A3, which has the same obverse type.