Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 11. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Atrebates. Commios. Circa 50-40 BC. AR Unit (0.77 gm). Ladder Head Type. Celtic head left with two-pin lips and vertical lentoid eye with small phallic face and ringed-pellets in front / Horse left with double stranded tail. Hobbs 731; Van Arsdell 355-1; SCBC 69. VF, well centered head with phallic face visible. Very rare. ($300)

From the Chris King Collection. Ex Chris Rudd Collection. Found near Reading, Berkshire, Autumn 1990.

Most specimens do not reveal the concealed phallic face as prominently as this.