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Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 656. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. The Trinovantes. Uninscribed. Circa 50-40 BC. AV Stater (5.36 g, 12h). Climping L Type. Abstract wreathed head of Apollo right / Celticized horse left; remains of charioteer above, reverse S design with bird head terminals to left; crescents, pellets, and pellet-in-annulets around. Hobbs -; Van Arsdell -; SCBC 33A; Triton V (15 January 2002), lot 2425 (same rev. die). CCI 00.1844 (same dies). Good VF, flatly struck as are almost all known specimens. Extremely rare. ($2000)

From the Prof. T.R. Gurr Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear MBS 8 (5 February 2003), lot 7.

Apparently all known specimens are from a single find near Climping in West Sussex.