445, Lot: 688. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CELTIC, Iceni. Uninscribed. Circa 65-1 BC. AR Unit (15.5mm, 1.15 g, 7h). Early Face/Horse type. Struck circa 50-30 BC. Male head right; to right, pellet-in-annulet above crescent above pellet-in-rosette / Horse right; above, pellet-in-rosette flanked by annulets above pellet-in-annulet; additional symbols around; grain ear below. Allen,
Coins –; Van Arsdell –; cf. ABC 1525; SCBC 433; CCI 96.3050 (
this coin). VF. Extremely rare.
From the Ealing Collection. Ex Rudd FPL 26 (1997), no. 43. Found near Snettisham, Norfolk, February 1991 (same field as the Snettisham gold torcs).