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Henry IV AD 1399-1413 Gold Noble London Light Coinage Very Rare

Nadine — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:27:46 +0000

Henry IV AD 1399-1413 Gold Noble *Very Rare*

Light Coinage AD 1412-13

King in Ship / Royal Cross

London

S1715; 33mm, 7.03g

Seldom offered for sale, all coinage of Henry IV is rare. Slight weakness to face of king but otherwise a decent example.

Henry Bolingbroke was the eldest son of John of Gaunt who had acted as Regent during the early part of Richard II reign. Henry was the first monarch to speak English as his native tongue. Although a cousin to Richard Henry was one of the Lords Appellant who revolted against Richard. by opposing his decision to try five of his courtiers for treason. The Appellants asserted Parliament’s authority and thereby controlled government policy at least until a royal recovery saw them swept from power. Initially Richard did not punish Henry when the revolt was put down even creating him Duke of Hereford. However when John of Gaunt died in AD 1399 Richard had Henry exiled and also disinherited of John of Gaunt’s titles and land.

Henry then raised an army and invaded Wales in August AD 1399. Richard, rather than fight, agreed to abdicate and was then taken back as captive to London where Henry was crowned. Although Henry had initially agreed to spare Richard’s life but upon discovering a plot to re instate Richard he had Richard taken to Pontefract Castle where Richard was starved to death early in AD 1400.

Henry faced many rebellions during his reign. These included a revolt by Owain Glyndwr who claimed to be the last Prince of Wales. Although Glyndwr was never captured Henry eventually managed to take control of Wales. He also faced an invasion by the Scots and a revolt from the Percy’s, the Duke of Northumberland, and his son Harry Hotspur. These were effectively put down when Henry succeeded in defeating them at the Battle of Shrewsbury in AD 1403.

Although Henry consulted with Parliament he was in disagreement with them when faced with by the Lollard movement. The Lollards were demanding unification of Western Christianity. Henry considered this to be heresy and wanted their leaders burnt as heretics. Parliament wanted some of the land belonging to the Church confiscated. Neither happened.

From the middle of his reign Henry was beset with ill health and relied increasingly upon his son Henry, Duke of Monmouth for support. Henry eventually died in AD 1413.

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Anglo Saxon Eclectric Sceattas AD 710-760 Silver Sceatta Triquetras Series Rare

Nadine — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:56:21 +0000

Anglo Saxon Eclectric Sceattas AD 710-760 Silver Sceatta

Triquetras series

Facing profile bust / Interlaced cross

S821; 11mm, 1.00g

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance.

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Anglo Saxon Secondary Phase AD 710-760 Silver Sceat Series R2

Nadine — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:55:09 +0000

Anglo Saxon Secondary Phase AD 710-760 Silver Sceat

Series R2

Bust / Standard, symbols

S813; 11mm, 1.14g

A most pleasing example

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance.

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Eadwig AD 955-959 Silver Penny Small Cross Rare

Nadine — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:12:04 +0000

Eadwig AD 955-959 Silver Penny Small Cross

+ EADVVIG REX around small cross.

Mann +++ Mone (retrograde) in 3 lines.

S1122; 21mm, 1.48g

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dark tone and signs that it was once straightened, no cracks or edge loss and good metal.

This coin comes with a previous printed label.

Eadwig (955-959): Eadwig was the elder son of Eadmund, taking the throne after achieving his majority. One of the shortest reigning of all the Late Anglo-Saxon Kings, Eadwig’s reign was plagued by factionalism and alleged scandal. Popular history tells us that he was discovered by Abbot Dunstan ‘cavorting’ with an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and her daughter during his coronation feast, though this is almost certainly a later fabrication. It is thought that his animosity with the Church was rooted in their dissolving of his marriage on account that he and his wife were too related. This caused an apparent schism in the English court, with some supporting Eadwig’s position and others his younger brother -Eadgar. Numerous land-gifts by Eadwig during his reign have been interpreted as an attempt to bring further support to his cause. However, in 957, Eadwig was forced to acknowledge his brother’s co-rule alongside him – but conveniently died in 959 before a full-blown civil war could break out. His coins are probably the rarest of all the Later Anglo-Saxon monarchs, being very hard to find in general.

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Dobunni 1st Century BC Gold Stater Pershore Type Excessively Rare

Nadine — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:16:35 +0000

Dobunni 1st Century BC Gold Stater

Pershore Type. Excessively Rare (8 known)

Obverse – Dobunnic tree symbol with ten branches, ring at base, on plain field.

Reverse – Triple-tailed horse right (three tail strands with pellets), ear in form of ellipse. Crescent and rings above. Zigzag above head. Wheel below.

ABC2006, S-; 17mm, 5.47g

Healy Phase 3: COD 16 ‘Pershore’.

This coin comes with a rough find area provenance.

Seldom available to commerce in any grade, this coin is centrally struck on both sides and most appealing in hand. One of the rarest of the Dobunnic series.

The Dobunni, the most westerly coin-issuers of Late Iron Age Britain, had a key zone of influence centred around what is today the Cotswolds – encompassing modern Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, parts of Oxfordshire and the lower Severn valley. Ptolemy places them firmly in and around Roman Corinium (modern Cirencester), although their original capital was probably located a few miles away at Bagendon – a massive site with huge enclosure ditches that was abandoned in about AD 60.

The earliest Dobunnic types are a small, restricted series of uninscribed gold coins perhaps issued in the period 50–20 BC, characterised by examples contained within the small hoard recovered in 1993 at Pershore, Worcestershire. These, along with many of their inscribed cousins, appear to partially overlap with a very extensive, uninscribed silver coinage first classified by Robert Van Arsdell – types such as the so-called ‘Cotswold Cock’ (ABC 2012/BMC 2950–1), ‘Cotswold Eagle’ (ABC 2015/BMC 2953–62) and ‘Cotswold Oxo’ (ABC 2024/BMC 2976–80).

Dobunnic coinage possesses a strong sense of regionalism in its artistry, having a relatively restricted, perhaps even conservative decorative range. There are no hints of agricultural prowess, as hinted at by the plentiful corn-ears rendered on Cunobelin’s gold staters and quarter-staters. Neither are there mint-names, as can be found proudly declared on issues of Calleva and Verlamion. Most certainly absent are both Latin titles such as ‘REX’ (king) and images from the Classical world; sphinxes, centaurs, griffins and wine-cups – as encountered on the silver coins of Cunobelin, Tasciovanus and Verica.

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Iceni 1st Century BC Norfolk Wolf Left Type Gold Stater Scarce

Nadine — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:40:52 +0000

Iceni 1st Century BC Norfolk Wolf Gold Stater

Left Type. Scarce

ABC 1399; 17mm, 5.26g

Obverse – Abstracted head of Apollo left. Wreath with inside edge of laurel leaves facing downwards. Cloak below. Linear crescents to bottom left. Spike (hairbar) ends in arc with separate arc below. Hair curls to right behind wreath.

Reverse – Wolf left, bird on back at rear. Crescent and pellets above. Multiple pellets in arrangement below.

Evans: C3 (1864, p. 72, pl. C).

Allen Type: British Jb.

Mack 49b: British J Norfolk Wolf. Three additional pellets below the wolf.

Van Arsdell Classification: Icenian A, Icenian Earliest Uninscribed Gold Coins, Norfolk Wolf Type.

Talbot Norfolk Wolf B: Like Norfolk Wolf A (ABC 1393) but obverse and reverse are reversed. Struck at three locations (at least), including around Saham Toney and Snettisham. More dies than any Icenian coin with 18 die groups and was hoarded extensively at the later stages, but was struck over a long period of time over which is was debased and reduced in weight.

Talbot Chronology: Gallo-Belgic E/Ingoldisthorpe – Early Local Period I (55BC-35BC) – Early Local Period II (35BC-15BC) – Denominational Period I (15BC-5: Snettisham – Plouviez – Irstead – Early Boar Horse) – Denominational Period II (5-25: Boar Horse B – Boar Horse C) – Denominational Period III (25-45).

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Iceni

The Iceni, who largely inhabited modern Norfolk, represent what is probably Iron Age Britain’s best known tribal confederation. Thanks to the efforts of their last ruler, Boudicca, they have truly earned their place in the annals of British history. Representing a potent symbol of resistance against Roman rule, they have been wholly immortalised via contemporary culture – featuring widely in art, television and even through the medium of video games. Nevertheless, it is important to acknowledge that there is much more to the Iceni than their swansong, a final hurrah pitched against the inevitability of Roman victory in Britain.

This was a land of skilled metalworkers in both gold and bronze, as evidenced by finds like the Snettisham torcs and the recent carnyx (war trumpet) discovered near Thetford, cunningly crafted in sheet-metal. Hoards of horse gear, such as bridle fittings and terret rings, are increasingly common here, showing an adherence to local art styles well into the later 1st and even earlier 2nd centuries AD.

Our knowledge of Icenian coinage has been much advanced in recent years by Dr John Talbot, whose extensive publication of the series represents one of the few truly up-to-date syntheses of an entire, regional Iron Age coinage. The sequence begins with two iconic gold stater types. Perhaps most famous of these is the so-called ‘Norfolk Wolf’ (ABC 1393,1396,1399/BMC 212–78). This type, on which the reverse wolf faces either left or right, is one of only a very few Iron Age coins to feature canids. The second of the iconic Icenian staters is the extensive ‘Freckenham’ series and its variants (e.g. ABC 1426/BMC 3396–3404). Named after an 1885 hoard of ninety such coins, found in the village of Freckenham, Suffolk, these types generally depict a large, rose-like flower in the middle of their obverse faces, set at the centre of a four-spoked wheel. Accompanying these are varying types of uninscribed quarter-staters, most common of which is the so-called ‘Irstead’ type with its distinctive lattice-square obverse motif. Other uninscribed quarter-staters vary from rare to extremely rare, the latter best exemplified by the so-called ‘Mildenhall Mystery’ (ABC 1489).

While extensive, the Icenian gold issues are nevertheless dwarfed by the sheer variety of silver coinages present, which utterly predominate in regard to the site-finds generally recovered by detectorists and archaeologists alike. Iconography varies considerably on these. Most developed are the ‘Bury Diadem’ and ‘Bury Helmet’ type units (e.g. ABC 1495/1498/BMC 3524–32), which have obverses depicting scowling female helmeted busts. The stylistic links between these and Roman republican denarii of the late 2nd and early 1st century BC are uncanny, suggesting these formed the prototypes for Icenian die-cutters. Subsequent types depicting human busts are distinctly more crude, such as the ‘Odin Eye’ and its derivatives (ABC 1537/BMC 3538–39) – the lips now amusingly exaggerated and the hair coarsely braided.

A subsequent coinage where the human bust is replaced by a boar, what John Talbot generally refers to as the ‘boar-horse’ series (e.g. ABC 1579/BMC 3455–72), marks the beginning of coin-design standardisation. These in turn are superseded by the most common Icenian silver coins of all, which depict a pair of opposed crescents on the obverse and a prancing horse on the reverse. Examples of this highly variable general type (e.g. ABC 1660, 1663, 1699, 1702) are prolific. Text is now added wholesale to coin designs, with lettering of varying kinds appearing on this issue. Those present include the inscriptions ECE, ECEN, EDN, ANTED, AESU and SAENU, amongst others. Are these rulers, moneyers, officials, traders, mint-names, total gibberish or simply imitations of Latin inscriptions? The answer may simultaneously lie in any or all of these areas, though John Talbot favours the idea that they are personal names. What we do know for certain is that these coinages were produced in very large quantities at multiple mints, and that they turn up in hoards accompanied by worn Republican denarii and early Imperial issues. On the basis of the latter, their manufacture and deposition can probably be assigned to the first few decades of the 1st century AD.

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Regini & Atrebates Tincomarus c. 25 BC-AD 10 Tincomarus Victory Silver Unit Excessively Rare

Nadine — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:04:06 +0000

Regini & Atrebates Tincomarus c. 25 BC-AD 10 Tincomarus Victory Silver Unit

Excessively Rare

ABC 1130 (Plate coin), S-, VA-

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 50, no 25. Found Winchester, Hants. CCI 00.0072

This coin comes with a previous label.

Tincomarus (25 BC–AD 10?)

Striking both in gold and silver, Tincomarus is notable in that he is one of several Atrebatic rulers to style himself ‘COM F’ on coinage – an abbreviation of the Latin Commii Filius (‘son of Commius’). His issues are highly variable, being divided into no fewer than four different styles. These demonstrate a clear shift from indigenous art-styles towards Classically-influenced motifs, which often employ designs derived from contemporary Roman prototypes. The latter has been suggested as evidence that Tincomarus spent time in Rome as a hostage, which in all likelihood exposed him to a plethora of Classical art in various mediums. No finer example of this exists in his coinage than the so-called ‘Tincomarus Warrior’ staters (e.g. ABC 1061/BMC 767–8), the reverse featuring an equestrian design lifted directly from Republican denarii of 82 BC, struck by the moneyer P. Crepusius. He appears in Augustus’ Res Gestae, being named as a suppliant British king alongside the Kentish Dubnovellaunos.

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Durotriges 58 BC-AD 43 Silver Quarter Stater Duro Boat Bird

Nadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:25:28 +0000

Durotriges 58 BC-AD 43 Silver Quarter Stater

Duro Boat Bird

3 Men in boat, pellet rosette to left / Zigzag thunderbolt across field, Y shape and uncertain objects to each side

ABC2208, S365. 11mm, 1.13g

The Durotriges tribe occupied modern day Dorset with part of adjoining Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. There is some mystery over the precise arrangement and correct attribution of coinage in the South-west, the Chute stater is probably struck by the Durotriges tribe but in recent years has been attributed to the Belgae.

The quick debasement of precious metal in the silver staters struck by the Durotriges would suggest an issue with the supply of silver to the area in the early first century AD, perhaps linked to the Roman conquest of West Gaul.

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Corieltavi c.1st Century BC Gold Stater South Ferribly

Nadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:19:19 +0000

Corieltavi c.1st Century BC Gold Stater

South Ferribly

Wreath, cloak and crescents / Lunate horse left with anchor face above, star sun below, pellet rosette below head

ABC1743; S390. 18mm, 5.87g.

A great example of type, central and bold on both sides, a pleasing coin in hand.

Found north of Birmingham, West Midlands.

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Corieltavi

The Corieltavi (sometimes called the Coritani, Corieltauvi or Coritavi) lived in and around what is today the East Midlands. Though their territory was centred on Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, coin distribution patterns suggest that they probably held sway in at least some areas located north of the Humber – likely penetrating some way into modern Yorkshire. This gives them the honour of being Iron Age Britain’s most northerly coin issuers.

While no coins appear to have been minted either by the peoples located north of them, nor their neighbours in the central/western midlands, this position on something of a monetary ‘frontier’ by no means affects either the quality or quantity of their coinage. While there is little direct copying of classical images to be found here, nor evidence of any rulers whose names entered the annals of Rome, the coins issued within what numismatists call the ‘North Eastern Region’, are highly developed, characterful pieces which attest to the presence of skilled metalworkers and imaginative die-cutters.

Like many of Iron Age Britain’s coin-issuing tribes, the Corieltavi’s earliest issues date to shortly after the invasions of Julius Caesar, beginning with an extensive coinage of uninscribed gold staters. These, the ‘North East Coast’ type (ABC 1716, 1719, 1722/BMC 182–211) are derived from repeated down-the-line copying of classical Macedonian prototypes. Over time, this type morphs into the so-called ‘South Ferriby’ staters, characterised by the increasingly stylised horse of lunate appearance present on their reverse faces (ABC 1743–52/BMC 3148–80). Other varieties of similar ilk to the South Ferriby types include the ‘Domino’ and ‘Kite’ staters, both of which have intriguing geometric symbols that evoke these modern descriptive terms in their reverse fields (ABC 1758, 1761/BMC 3185–6 and 3181–84). Contemporary with the latter is a highly unusual coinage unique to the Corieltavi, comprising the so-called ‘Lindsey Scyphates’. These, which are thin and of distinctly cup-shaped appearance, depict stylised bristling boars on their obverse faces (ABC 1773/BMC 3189–92). The boar is an animal which seems to have held particular significance to the Corieltavi, given that it not only appears on the gold uninscribed scyphates, but also on the extensive series of uninscribed silver coins which seem to emerge slightly later, such as the ‘Proto Boar’ type and its derivatives (ABC 1779/BMC 3194–98). While boars also appear on the early ‘South Ferriby’ silver units (e.g. ABC 1800), these slowly disappear during the transition towards inscribed types.

The inscribed Corieltavian coinages, which probably emerge during the early 1st century AD (that is, c. AD 10–20/30) and continue till shortly after the Claudian invasion, are some of the most mysterious in the Late Iron Age series – not least because unlike those from the southern and North Thames regions, we cannot tie the individuals named upon them with historically attested figures named in written sources.

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Vespasian AD 69-79 Silver Denarius Rome

Nadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:54:19 +0000

Vespasian AD 69-79 Silver Denarius

Laureate bust right/Priestly Emblems

The Twelve (12) Caesars

Rome mint

RCV2282; 17mm, 3.45g

Son of a middle-class tax collector Vespasian entered the military where he had a successful career. As commander of Legion II he played an important part in the invasion of Britain in AD 43. He is credited with capturing forts at Hod Hill and Maiden Castle as well as the Isle of Wight. Retired by the time of the Jewish uprising Nero instructed him to quell the revolt and appointed him as supreme commander in the East. With help from his eldest son Titus he was successful. Meanwhile Nero had committed suicide and the empire had plunged into civil war. After three emperors had been proclaimed in quick succession Vespasian decided to make his own bid and was proclaimed emperor by his own troops in AD 69.
Returning to Rome his authority was established following the demise of Vitellius and the advance of armies who were loyal to his cause. Establishing the Flavian dynasty Vespasian marked the return of strong government with discipline being restored to the armies. Upon the return of Titus in AD 70 Vespasian enjoyed a magnificent triumph with his son who he created a full partner in the government of the empire.
Vespasian’s simple lifestyle and industry soon made him popular after the excess of previous years. When Vespasian died in AD 79 he was deified and there was genuine sorrow. His final words are alleged to have been I think I am becoming a god.
Vespasian’s reign saw the opening of many provincial mints especially in the east.

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