Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 662. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CELTIC, Britain. The Iceni. Uninscribed. Circa 45-40 BC. AV Stater (5.53 g). Early Middle Freckenham type. Crossed wreaths consisting of schematic crescents and pellets / Celticized horse right; wheel above, rosette below, pellets around. Hobbs -; Van Arsdell -; SCBC -. CCI 95-2809 (this coin). Good VF, yellow gold. ($1000)
All the coins of this recently discovered transitional Freckenham type apparently come from one hoard found near Thetford in early 1995.