Eastern 1st Century BC Finney’s Thunderbolt Cantian Style Gold Quarter Stater *Extremely Rare*

Eastern 1st Century BC Finney’s Thunderbolt Cantian Style Gold Quarter Stater

Zigzag wreath across field. Large pellet in ring to each side. Pellet border.

Horse right with bulbous body, beaded mane. Cogwheel sun (cog) above, in front and below.

Extremely Rare, 18 known.

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ABC 2255; 11mm, 1.20g

Sills DK 480 (13 obverse, 8 reverse dies): Early North-West Thames Coinage; Type: Indeterminate and Local Issues; Quarter Staters: Finney’s Thunderbolt.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British La (Whaddon Chase) – British Lb (Westbury) – Local Issues.

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins

C Rudd FPL 27, no 87. Found Welney, Norfolk 1997. CCI 97.1012

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

Eastern

There are 33 early uninscribed types, found mainly in the eastern part of the North Thames region, especially Essex, which can’t comfortably be attributed either to the Trinovantes of the Catuvellauni. They are mostly extremely rare types – only seven were published by Van Arsdell, and they don’t seem to slot into any of the principle North Thames series. These may be variants struck by the Trinovantes or Catuvellauni or they could have been struck by smaller sub-tribes.