Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 58. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Iceni. Circa 53-40 BC. Base AV Stater (5.20 gm). Norfolk Wolf Left Type. Icenian wreath motif with leaves facing downwards / Celtic wolf standing left, bristles on back, bird on rump, pellets under tail and pellet triad below. Hobbs 218-78; Van Arsdell 610-3; SCBC 31. CCI 99.0092. VF. ($500)

From the William F. Tatu Collection. Ex Heacham Hoard (2nd addendum), Norfolk, 1997.

R. Kretz has identified the long-legged marsh bird standing on the wolf’s back as an Avocet (Recurvirostra avisetta); see his article "On the track of the Norfolk Wolf," Chris Rudd list 48, pp. 3-9. This coin is illustrated in Land of the Iceni, ed. J. Davies and T. Williamson, 1999, fig. 2.13.