Exceptional Gold Ring Money

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 8. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Ring money. 1st millenium BC. AV 19mm diameter (18.70 g). Smooth ring of gold with blunt ends and black-brown colored bands. Van Arsdell 1-3; Pudill & Eyre, The Tribes & Coins of Celtic Britain, p. 19, fig. 24. EF for issue. Exceptional.

Reportedly, ex Mossup Collection; found Owanby, Lincolnshire, 1974.