Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 34. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Corieltauvi. Circa 45-10 BC. AV Stater (5.53 gm). South Ferriby Uniface Type. Undefined bulge / Lunate Celticized horse left, large eight-pointed star below. Hobbs 3173; Van Arsdell 811-7; SCBC 390. CCI 04.0514. VF, large flan. Boldly struck in attractive rose gold. ($400)

Found Normanby-by-Spital, Lincs., circa 2000.

The horses on Corieltauvian gold staters are different from all others, because they are largely composed of crescent moons and crescentic lines, perhaps suggesting that horses in this region were associated more with a lunar goddess than a solar deity. The beauty of this abstract Celtic imagery is that it is suggestive, not definitive, and can be appreciated on several levels, from the artistic to the arcane.