Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 14. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $810. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Atrebates. Verica. Circa 10-42 AD. AV Quarter Stater (1.30 gm). Thunderbolt Type. Horizontal thunderbolt motif with central ringed-pellet, COM above, FILI below, beaded border / Horse galloping right, VIR above, ringed-pellet below, beaded border. Hobbs 1217-22; Van Arsdell 468; SCBC 126. Good VF, rose gold, bold horse with clear VIR. Very rare. ($600)

Found Bourne End, Hertfordshire.

Sir J. Evans says: ‘The importance of these coins in placing beyond all doubt the interpretation as FILIVS of the F that so frequently follows COM or COMMI is very great.’ (The Coins of the Ancient Britons, 1890, pg. 515).