Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 661. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. The Corieltauvi. Volisios Dumnocoveros. Circa 20-35 AD. AV Stater (5.39 gm, 12h). Schematic wreath crossed by linear frames with VO LI SI OS across field; in opposing corners rosettes and tribrachs / DVN NOCO VEP (second N retrograde, VE ligate), curvilinear horse left; \ below head. Hobbs 3330; Van Arsdell 978-1; SCBC 416. CCI 95-3904. Good VF, toned yellow gold. ($1500)

Ex Jascha Heifetz Collection (Superior, 10 December, 1989), lot 2320.

Corieltauvian coins are known with the names Volisios Dumnocoveros, Volisios Dumnovellaunos, and Volisios Cartivel(aunos). Volisios may be a surname for three different rulers, or Volisios may be a paramount chief, with three sub-rulers acknowledging him as overlord. The Volisios coinage appears to have been struck up to the time of the Claudian invasion of Britain, when the Corieltauvi moved northward into the territory of the Parisii, where staters of this type have been found.