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LOT 1599

Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,904

CELTIC IRON AGE COINS - CORIELTAUVI - VOLISIOS DUMNOCOVEROS - GOLD STATER
35-50 AD
(5.16 grams.).

Obv: vertical wreath with two line inscription VO left and LI right above SI left and OS right, with three-armed spiral-in-annulet lower left and upper right and pellet ring around annulet lower right and upper left. Rev: horse left with pellet trefoil before with DVM above and continuing NOCO below and VEROS in front with VE in monogram. Extremely fine; near as struck. Very rare.

PROVENANCE:
Ex East Riding Hoard, Yorkshire, UK, 2014

PUBLISHED:
Recorded under the Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference YORYM-953E38 (with record printout); disclaimed under the Treasure Act, 1996, reference: 2014 T212 (with copy of British Museum letter).

LITERATURE:
S. 416; ABC 1989; BMC 3331 (same dies?).