Eastern 1st Century BC Maldon Wheel Southern Style Gold Quarter Stater *Excessively Rare*

Eastern 1st Century BC Maldon Wheel Southern Style Gold Quarter Stater

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 linked linear crescents in front centred above and below the hairbar. Two ringed pellets in front of crescents are linked by pellet arc. Spike (hairbar) has two ringed pellets along it and a further ringed pellet where it ends in the centre. Wheel below, connected by a line to the hairbar. Hair curls behind wreath are standing not hanging.

Segmented horse right, dashed mane, saddle, neck straps, double-strand tail. Floral sun (sunflower) above. Wheel in front, ringed pellet below.

Excessively Rare

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ABC 2234; 12mm, 1.41g

Sills DK 440 (5 obverse, 11 reverse dies): Early North-East Thames Coinage; Type: Local Issues; Quarter Staters: Maldon Wheel. Copies British Qc Wheel (ABC 500) in a different style. Contemporary with Essex Wheels (ABC 2231).

Essex Wheels, Maldon Wheel and Harlow Flyer (ABC 2368) may not be local issues but struck at an alternative mint alongside British Lc.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British Ab (Great Waltham) – Shotley (British F) – British Lc/Ld – 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

G Hilton collection, March 2010.

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.