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№ 14 x

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7 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£3,000

Early Uninscribed issues, Stater, Gallo-Belgic C/Kentish A, degraded head of Apollo right, rev. horse right, crescent above and below, 6.32g/10h (Sills 459; ABC 515; BMC –; VA –; S 20A). Nearly extremely fine, extremely rare £1,500-2,000

Provenance: Bt M. Vosper April 2007.

Sills describes this coin as part of ‘a brief series of Staters and Quarter-Staters that appear to have been struck in southern England…probably the earliest British gold coinage’