Eastern 1st Century BC Essex Wheels Gold Quarter Stater *Very Rare*

Eastern 1st Century BC Essex Wheels Gold Quarter Stater

Very Rare

ABC 2231, 12mm, 1.43g

Obverse

Abstracted head of Apollo right, wreath with inside edge of leaves pointing down above the hairbar and upwards below it, angled and offset above the hairbar. Cloak below, two linear crescents in front. Pellet-in-ring motifs in hair curls behind. Spike (hairbar) made up of lines and pellet-in-ring motifs (either arc with a ringed pellet separate above or three ringed pellets on the hairbar). Spoked wheel above hair curls at top of flan.

Reverse

Horse with triple tail right, pellet mane. Onion-like motif (crossed fronds of two interlocking, comb-like curls, sometimes simplified) above. Triskeles (three-legged symbol) in front of head. Ringed pellet in front. Spoked wheel below.

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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 73, no 63 (2004). Found Chelmsford, Essex 1996. CCI 96.3163   VA260

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.