Auction Catalogue

17 March 2010

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Celtic, British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 4

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17 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£520

Early Uninscribed issues, Quarter-Stater, small four-petalled flower motif in plain field, rev. stylised trophy, zig-zags, pellets, annulets and other ornaments around, 1.41g (BMC 436; VA 146; S –). Good very fine, extremely rare; less than ten specimens known
£500-700

Provenance: C. Rudd FPL 82, July 2005 (57). CCI 05.0400

While the reverse owes much to the Kentish Trophy type, coins with this simple floral obverse mostly have Essex and Suffolk provenances, suggesting that they were struck north of the river Thames