North East Coast left type.

Wreath / Horse left

Rare

ABC1722, S29, 18mm, 5.81g

Sharply struck with little wear.

This coin comes with rough find area provenance.

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The Corieltauvi tribe occupied modern day Lincolnshire and parts of adjoining Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With an extensive series of inscribed and uninscribed coins in both gold and silver this makes for a very interesting series to collect.
The Scyphate gold quarter staters are worthy of mention, very thin and deeply dished with no parallel in the rest of the Iron Age series, presumably a very localised issue but why?

Some of the later inscribed staters bear long and wonderful names, there is some suggestion that these may be the names of two individuals, perhaps joint kings or the introduction of moneyers displayed on coins. ‘Volisios Domnovellaunos’ is my favourite, it puts our modern day names to shame, ‘Bob’ not quite having the same ring.

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North East Coast

Wreath / Horse left

Rare

ABC1722, S29, 19mm, 6.19g

Sharply struck and with little wear, an attractive example of true British Iron Age artistry at it’s best.

This coin comes with rough find area provenance.

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The Corieltauvi tribe occupied modern day Lincolnshire and parts of adjoining Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With an extensive series of inscribed and uninscribed coins in both gold and silver this makes for a very interesting series to collect.
The Scyphate gold quarter staters are worthy of mention, very thin and deeply dished with no parallel in the rest of the Iron Age series, presumably a very localised issue but why?

Some of the later inscribed staters bear long and wonderful names, there is some suggestion that these may be the names of two individuals, perhaps joint kings or the introduction of moneyers displayed on coins. ‘Volisios Domnovellaunos’ is my favourite, it puts our modern day names to shame, ‘Bob’ not quite having the same ring.

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South Ferriby type

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

ABC1743var, S390, 19mm, 5.31g

Exceptional example of type, little wear and well struck from fresh dies.

Comes with rough find area provenance.

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Proto Boar

Boar right with curly tail, spear in shoulder, solar rosette above, S shape below boar / Horse left with pelletal sun over, usually pellet in ring below

Scarce

ABC1779, S396, 15mm, 1.29g

Comes with previous collectors label

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Proto Boar

Boar right with curly tail and spear in shoulder, solar rosette above, S shape below boar / Horse left with pelletal sun over, usually with pellet in ring below

Scarce

ABC1779, S396, 14mm, 1.38g

Comes with previous collectors labels

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North East Coast (left)

Wreath, cloak and crescents/ Disarticulated sinuous horse left, many pellets and charioteer’s arm above, solar panel below with zigzag or crescents in extergue

Rare

ABC1722, S29, 19mm, 6.12g

ex Whitwell Hoard SF 3

A wonderful example with firm hoard provenance.

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The Whitwell Hoard

A small hoard of five British Iron Age Gold Coins (staters) that were discovered in Whitwell, near Worksop in Derbyshire by David McIntyre Haigh and his wife Judy Haigh.

David started metal detecting back in 2010, with Judy joining him two years later, after selling their sign manufacturing business in North Derbyshire and taking an early retirement. They invested in two Deus Mk 1 Detectors and later the Deus11, an Equinox, several probes, and a Suzuki Vitara 4×4 Jeep to enable them to access ploughed fields and farmland. They chose to investigate parts of north Nottinghamshire and the Trent Valley due to its Roman history, never expecting to find an Iron Age hoard instead.

Back in 2019, the duo unearthed five Staters of the Corieltauvi, initially believing they had found simple brass buttons. David describes it as “the find of a lifetime”. The find was promptly reported to their local Finds Liaison Officer (FLO), whereupon they were later declared treasure and acquired by the Western Park Museum in Sheffield.

As David explains: “We have spent over 10 years searching agricultural land with Saxon, Roman and Iron Age history in North Nottinghamshire. In late September 2023 at 6.00am on a damp misty morning, I returned to the field where I had originally found five superb full gold staters in 2019. This was a large sloping field a few miles from Whitwell, where I had had only a limited time in the past to detect as the field was usually seeded very soon after harvest.”
 
He continues: “On arriving on the field I spent the first half hour experimenting with the expert settings on my XP Deus Detector. Using an adapted deep programme, I began detecting and despite noisy static interference I began to hear some deep but very faint signals. My first find was a copper alloy single loop buckle circa 1250AD, next came up an even deeper worn 3rd century Roman radiate coin. Encouraged by these finds I persevered listening for soft deep signals through the Static. Another find came up, this time a large worn copper 1812 Nottingham workhouse penny token, similar in size to a George III cartwheel penny. By mid-morning, I decided to head back to my jeep parked at the top of the field. I had gone 30 yards when I had the faintest of signals, being  very tired I was tempted to leave it, but no I thought it’s worth digging, at first I lost the signal, then using my probe I located a strong signal, hands shaking I gently wiped the earth off the round disc in my hand and revealed a bright shining 2000 year old superb gold stater with a Celtic Horse and pelletal sun design. Marking the spot with a marker I trudged back to my jeep and rested for half an hour. I just couldn’t believe it I’d struck lucky again, I was even too tired to do the “Gold dance” favoured by detectorists whenever they find gold. I got on the phone to my wife Judy back at home, she was amazed but disappointed she wasn’t there detecting with me. Next, I telephoned the farmer to give him the good news. The rest of that afternoon went by in daze, unbelievably I found close by a further four superb gold staters of similar design. The farmer was planning to seed this field the following day, so no more detecting this year!”

Naturally, the find was reported to the FLO, whereupon it was declared treasure and offered to the Western Park Museum. Due to budget constraints, the coins were returned to the finders and are now to be offered for sale.

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North East Coast. Right type with sun

Wreath, cloak and crescents, often with many tiny pellets/Disarticulated sinuous horse right with pellets and charioteer’s arm above, pelletal sun below

ABC1719, S28; 18mm, 5.95g

Scarce

with old dealers label and rough find area provenance.

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South Ferriby, 4 pointed star type

Wreath, cloak and crescents/Lunate horse left, anchor face above, star sun below

ABC1743 variant , S390; 18mm, 5.44g

Excessively Rare, 21 known.

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South Ferriby

Wreath / Lunate horse

ABC1743, S390; 17mm, 5.50g

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Vertical wreath above horizontal inscription between 2 plain lines, DV to left of wreath, MN to right/ Lunate horse left with large open head

ABC1971, S414, 20mm, 5.23g

Very Rare

A sharp coin, stuck in low carat gold which is usual for this series, this example being slightly off centre but otherwise sharply struck and with little wear.

A rough find area provenance will be provided with this coin.

Here there are 3 possibilities. Firstly that Dumnocoveros was father of Tigirseno or ‘Old Lord’ who struck these coins. Secondly that Dumnocoveros was high king and that Tigirseno was a sub chieftain. Thirdly that both were of equal status and governed together. Little is known about this king/s and given the small number of coins known it is likely that he didn’t rule for long. 

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