Gallo Belgic Ambiani 2nd Century BC Broad Flan Gold Quarter Stater Right Type Rare*

Gallo Belgic

Ambiani 2nd Century BC Broad Flan Gold Quarter Stater

Right Type

Rare

ABC 28, 15mm, 1.72g

Obverse

Celticized head of Apollo right.

Reverse

Celticized horse right, stylized charioteer above, flower symbol below.

View Video Here

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 46, no 7. Found Stock, Essex, Aug 1997. CCI 97.1834  VA17

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

Iron Age Gallo Belgic & early uninscribed coins are found all over Britain. These coins were made in Gaul then imported during the 2nd-1st Century BC, before coin manufacture was established in Britain. The introduction of Britain’s own coinage in around 60-50 BC was in an uninscribed form to start with, only later did rulers realise the potential of inscriptions.