Auction Catalogue

17 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Celtic, British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 61

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17 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,550

Iceni, Ale Sca, Unit, boar right, pellet-in-annulet between two crescents above, AL-FE below, rev. horse prancing right, pellet-in-annulet and pellets above, SCAVO PF below, 1.04g/7h (BMC –; VA –; S –). Of good metal and fine style, reverse slightly off-centre, better than very fine, extremely rare; one of probably half-a-dozen known AND THE ONLY SPECIMEN SHOWING THE EXTRA LETTERS ON THE REVERSE £1,200-1,500

Provenance: Found at Reepham (Lincolnshire) 2003; bt C. Rudd 2004. CCI 04.0403.

For a possible explanation of the inscriptions on this type, see C. Rudd FPL 88, July 2006, p.3. This specimen is from the same dies as the coin illustrated in the article