British Iron Age, ATREBATES and REGNI, Eppillus (20 BC - AD 1), Quarter-Stater, eppilv com · f around crescent, rev. horse right, star above and below, 1.17g/9h (Sills class 1 [O1/R2]; ABC 1157; S 97). Very fine, obverse better and well centred; extremely rare £700-£900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Graham Collection of British Iron Age and Hammered Coins.

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Bt Dolphin Coins 1986

Struck from the same dies as the British Museum (BMC 1007) and L. Stack (33) specimens.

Of this type J. Sills writes ‘The legend is one of the most finely engraved of any British Iron Age type and the design as a whole is remarkably similar to the reverse of a denarius of Augustus’.