Lot Archive

Lot

№ 101

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8 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£30

CELTIC COINS Atrebates and Regni, Tincomarus, Stater, silver Unit, obverse star, traces of letters around, reverse boy riding dolphin right, tin[c] in field, 1.2 gms (CCB 371.1; S 88; BMC 946 ff.). About very fine for issue, but reverse not well struck as usual (£40-60)

Reverse is perhaps based on a Roman Republican Denarius of L. Lucretius Trio (76 BC).