Corieltavi 50 BC – AD 50 Gold Stater North East Coast Sun type

Corieltavi 50 BC – AD 50 Gold Stater

Sun type

North East Coast

Wreath, cloak and crescents / Disarticulated, sinuous horse left with many pellets and charioteer’s arm above, pelletal sun below, zigzag in exterque

Very Rare

ABC1731, S29, 20mm, 6.27g

ex Graham Slater Collection.

The Corieltavi tribe occupied modern day Lincolnshire and parts of adjoining Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With an extensive series of inscribed and uninscribed coins in both gold and silver this makes for a very interesting series to collect.
The Scyphate gold quarter staters are worthy of mention, very thin and deeply dished with no parallel in the rest of the Iron Age series, presumably a very localised issue but why?

Some of the later inscribed staters bear long and wonderful names, there is some suggestion that these may be the names of two individuals, perhaps joint kings or the introduction of moneyers displayed on coins. ‘Volisios Dumnovellaunos’ is my favourite, it puts our modern day names to shame, ‘Bob’ not quite having the same ring.

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