CNG 97, Lot: 963. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Atrebates & Regni. Verica. Circa AD 10-40. AV Stater (18mm, 5.29 g, 10h). Vine leaf (Atrebatic K) type. Southern mint. Vine leaf; [V]I RI across field / Warrior, with spear and shield on back, on horse leaping right from platform with distinct cross-hatching; C O F around. Allen & Haselgrove series D, 63-75 (dies F/g); Bean VERS3-1e; Van Arsdell 520-1; ABC 1193; SCBC 121. CCI 11.1366 (this coin). EF, weakly struck reverse.

Ex 2011 Vine Leaf Hoard (PAS Ref. HAMP-6DFB33, this coin is no. 45).

The “Vine Leaf Hoard” of 105 gold staters, composed primarily of issues of Verica and Epillus, was found in Winter 2011-2 by metal detectorists near Chawton in Hampshire. Immediately, the finders declared the hoard to the proper authorities, who recorded it according to the Portable Antiquities Scheme and sent it to the British Museum to study. The hoard was declared Treasure and offered to the Museum, which already had similar hoards in their holdings and were unable to raise sufficient funds for the purchase. The coins were likely concealed around AD 42/3, during the unrest following the Catuvellaunian expansion into Atrebatic territory. After Epaticcus captured Verica’s capital at Calleva, the king fled to Rome, where he convinced Claudius to support his cause. These events directly led to the Roman conquest of Britain shortly afterward in AD 43.