Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1229. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC ENGLAND. Cantiaci (Cantii in Kent). Circa 50-30 BC. AR Unit (0.98 gm). Facing heads type. Two heads with long braided hair face to face; "ring-nosed bulls’ heads" above and below / Horse galloping left; "yoke" above, pellet in ring below. Hobbs -; Van Arsdell -; SCBC -; Sellwood & Metcalf, BNJ 56 (1986), pp. 181-82; CCI 03.0384. Good VF. Extremely rare, only ten others recorded. ($1500)

Found Chevington, East Sussex, circa 1996-97.

This type inspired an 8th century Anglo-Saxon sceatta, SCBC 792 (see L. Sellwood and D.M. Metcalf, BNJ 1986, and Anna Gannon, The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage; Sixth to Eighth Centuries, OUP, 2003).

The objects described as "ring-nosed bulls’ heads" on the obverse and "yoke" on reverse appear to be identical when compared with the similar coin in the BNJ article. Perhaps this coin may be the prototype from which lot 1230 devolved.