Regini 1st Century BC Climping Gold Stater *Rare*
£2,750.00
Regini 1st Century BC Climping Gold Stater
Rare
ABC 524, 18mm, 5.65g
Obverse
Apollo facing left, cruciform wreath (either with inside end of each leaf pointing upwards, or downwards above the hairbar and upwards below), with floral sceptre flanked by two wings. Comb-like hair curls to right. Conjoined linear crescents to left with harp-shaped cloak lines below.
Reverse
Horse left. S-shaped seahorse (or one-legged animal) above. Ringed pellet and crescent below. Two seahorses (small creatures with an animal or bird’s head at each end) in front.
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Comments
Allen Type: British L.
Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian D, Later Uninscribed Gold Coins, Whaddon Chase Type, Climping Variety.
Sills DK 194 (1 obverse, 1 reverse die): Early Southern Local Issues; North Thames Derivatives; Staters: Climping. A reversed, left-facing copy of British La, Whaddon Chase (ABC 2433). Comb-like hair curls and ringed pellet below the horse are as on Classes 1 and 2 of British La. Wreath has ‘downward’ leaves (inside end of each leaf pointing upwards). The S (backward-looking animal) above the horse replaces the frond on the Whaddon Chase. The style of the small animals is as on the Diadem Head (ABC 551), which is probably the equivalent quarter. See CCI 12.0259.
Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – Insular Cf / Aa Westerham – British Ad – British Q and L – North Thames Derivatives.
Around 50 are thought to exist. This type was unknown until a hoard at Climping, West Sussex was unearthed in August 2000. Only a fraction of the hoard was declared, the rest was dispersed through the trade.
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 PT 7663.
This coin comes with a previous label.
Regni/Regini
The Regni, sometimes referred to as the Regini, appear to have occupied what is today the western portion of West Sussex – their tribal civitas probably underlying what became the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). Regnian coinage is characterised not only by its sheer diversity, but also scarcity. Indeed, many of the key types are extremely rare. This is perhaps exemplified best by many of the tribe’s quarter-staters, of which no fewer than forty varieties are listed by ABC.
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