Eastern 1st Century BC Gold Tit Cantian Style Gold Quarter Stater *Excessively Rare*

Eastern 1st Century BC Gold Tit Cantian Style Gold Quarter Stater

Ringed pellet in centre of plain field. Pellet border.

Horse right, beaded mane, single-strand tail. Cogwheel sun (cog) above and below.

Excessively Rare, 9 known.

Crisp and central on both sides, a premium coin.

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ABC 2252 (plate coin); 11mm, 1.35g

Sills Ringed Pellet (1 obverse, 7 reverse dies): Early North-West Thames Coinage; Type: Indeterminate and Local Issues; Quarter Staters: Ringed Pellet. Heavier but with a more devolved design, they are perhaps contemporary with the Essex Banded, which are also heavy with a similarly plain obverse. The horse is based on British Lb (ABC 2463).
Sills DK 481: No pellets or ringed pellets around horse.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British La (Whaddon Chase) – British Lb (Westbury) – Local Issues.

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 30, no 68. Found Wheathampstead, Herts 1997. CCI 97.1659.  ABC plate coin

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.