Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1234. Estimate $1250.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC ENGLAND. Corieltauvi (Coritani) in Leicester. Vep Cor F. Circa 1-15 AD. AV Stater (4.93 gm). Wreath crossed by bar with crescent at each end, pellet in ring of pellets in each crescent/ Lunate horse left; VEP above, CORF below. Hobbs 3302-03; Van Arsdell 960; SCBC 410. CCI 02.0982. Good VF, coppery gold, full legend. Rare. [See color enlargement on plate 22] ($1250)

From the Victor Wood Collection. Ex Dix Noonan Webb (31 May 2000), lot 123; found Meden Vale, north Notts., 1984.

Metal analysis: Au 33%, Ag 6%, Cu 60% (Dr Peter Northover, University of Oxford, 23 June 2000).

A few Vep CorF staters have come onto the market lately, mostly from a hoard found near Spalding, Lincs. This coin, found almost twenty years ago, is nicer than most of them, and delivers both royal names, clearly engraved, to the collector.

There is much debate about this tribe and their rulers. They are variously called the Corieltauvi / Coritani / Corieltavi / Corioneltavori. The name on this coin can be read as either Vep, son of (filius) Cor, or Vep and Corf, joint rulers. Two or more royal names are common on Corieltauvi coins and inscriptions.