Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 663. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. The Iceni. Uninscribed. Circa 45-40 BC. AV Quarter Stater (0.96 g). Irstead Type. Interwoven wreaths forming a central box with ears; pellets and crescents around / Celticized horse right with "wishbone" shaped head; open crescent flanked by rosettes above, pellet-in-annulet below. Hobbs 3438; Van Arsdell 628-1bis (pl. 17); SCBC 430. CCI 87.0543. Good VF, rose gold. ($750)

From the Prof. T.R. Gurr Collection.

Van Arsdell 628-1 lumps two very distinct types together. The first type features a more realistic horse, with a trilobe device above. The second is like the present specimen.