Regini 1st Century BC Wonersh Gold Stater *Very Rare*

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Regini 1st Century BC Wonersh Gold Stater Very Rare

Name: Regini 1st Century BC Wonersh Gold Stater *Very Rare*
SKU: IAC232
Price: 4950.00 GBP
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£4,950.00

Code: IAC232

Regini

1st Century BC Wonersh Gold Stater

Very rare

ABC 527, 16mm, 5.27g

Obverse

Abstracted head of Apollo right (wreath cross with either solid or pellet lines), no hairbar (spike). Two outline back-to-back crescents at centre. Stylised locks of hair in some or all angles.

Reverse

Horse right, ear shaped like an ellipse. Eight-armed spiral sun above. Seven-spoked wheel with axle below. Small rings in field around. Anemone (ringed pellet within pellet ring) in front.

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Comments

Evans: D6 (1864, p. 84, pl. D).

Allen Type: British Ma.

Van Arsdell Classification: Trinovantian G, Later Uninscribed Gold and Silver Coins, Wonersh Type. Although it is stylistically related to Catuvellaunian types, the distribution is in the southern region. VA

1520 – 05: Rows of pellets between arms of spiral. This is Sills 198.

Rudd (ABC) attributes this coin to the Regni.

Sills (7 obverse, 6 reverse dies): Early Southern Local Issues; North Thames Derivatives; Type: British Ma; Staters: Wonersh. Based on Class 1 British Lb, Westbury, with a large spiral replacing the frond above the horse and there is a cog in front (ABC 2442).

Sills DK 198: Row of hair curls in every angle instead of crescents and cloak. Wreath outlined by pellets instead of solid line. Sometimes a line of pellets joining ringed pellets above and below the central crescents, and pellets between the hair curls.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – Insular Cf / Aa Westerham – British Ad – British Q and L – North Thames Derivatives.

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 46, no 19. Found Chichester, West Sussex. CCI 99.0861. VA1520-5 var.

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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