Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1357. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Trinovantes & Catuvellauni. Cunobelin. Circa AD 10-43. Æ Unit (1.73 g, 10h). Struck circa AD 10-15. Male head facing / Boar left; CVN below; all within double-pelleted linear border. Van Arsdell 1963-1; SCBC 326. Good VF, dark green patina. Rare.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection. Ex Rudd 27 (March 1997), lot 107.

Although a direct parallel to the silver issues is not apparent, the overtly Celtic obverse type would place this issue contemporary with the coins of De Jersey, Silver, group A, which also exhibit obvious Celtic types. Also, the reverse type has strong parallels with the coins of Tasciovanus, which also suggests this issue is from among the earliest bronze issues of Cunobelin (see D.F. Allen, “Celtic coins from the Romano-British Temple at Harlow, Essex” in BNJ XXXIII (1964), p. 3).