Catuvellauni Andoco c. 20-1 BC Crescent Wreath Gold Quarter Stater *Very Rare*

Catuvellauni Andoco c. 20-1 BC Crescent Wreath Gold Quarter Stater

Cruciform design with crossed wreaths of two solid lines with pellet ends either side of a pellet line, the vertical wreath (when central crescents standing) curved with the apex facing clockwise and the horizontal straight. The wreaths end in annulets at the outside but not the centre. Bold back-to-back linear crescents at centre, spaced widely with a pellet between. Inscription in angles – A-N-D-O

Horse left, widely-spaced front legs. Bucranium above. Wheel with central annulet below.

Very Rare

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ABC 2718; 12mm, 1.33g

Evans: V.5 (1864, p. 219, pl. V).

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian Q, Uncertain Dynastic Issues, The “Interregnum”, Coins Inscribed Andoco.

Sills DK 532 (3 obverse, 2 reverse dies): North Thames Coinage; Type: Andoco; Quater Staters: Class 1 – Crescent Wreath. Derived from VER/TAS (ABC 2598). All dies link suggesting a brief issue.

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

Provenance

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

M Vosper PT, Dec 1997. Found near Tilbury, Essex VA 1863

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

Andoco (c. 20 BC – ?)

Writing in the 1940s, the numismatist Derek Allen described a group of relatively rare issuers who appeared to be striking coins towards the end of Tasciovanos’ reign. One of these appears on coinage as ‘Andoco’, an abbreviation extrapolated by Chris Rudd as reflecting either the name Andocomaros or Andocombogios. The distribution of his coins, while spread through the North Thames region, is particularly focused in Hertfordshire. ABC lists eight types struck in his name, of which four are bronze, two silver and two gold. While both gold types are very similar to issues of Tasciovanos, an intriguing feature of the silver and bronze coins is that their obverses universally depict clean-shaven male portraits in profile. An association with Tasciovanos is proven by ABC 2730, which bears the obverse legend ‘TASC ANDO’.