Regini 1st Century BC Compton Corn Ear Gold Quarter Stater *Excessively Rare*
£3,750.00
Regini
1st Century BC Compton Corn Ear Gold Quarter Stater
Excessively rare, 3 known (this is the finest).
ABC 599 (plate coin), 9mm, 1.06g
Pretty in hand, crisp detail.
Obverse
Apollo wreath and plain line crossed by three-line hairbar (spike) of two wire lines beside bold central line, which ends in an upturned arc. Thin, centred linear crescents, the lower one backed with a bold pellet arc.
Reverse
Horse right, moon-shaped rump. Leaf motif (or corn ear) above. Petalled sun (ringed pellet with outer pellet ring) below.
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Comments
Sills DK 260 (2 obverse, 1 reverse dies): Early Southern Coinage; Later Eastern British Qc Derivatives; Quarter Staters: Compton Corn Ear.
Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – Insular Cf / Aa Westerham – British Ad – British Q and L – Southern British Qc Derivatives.
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 26, no 30. Found Compton, West Sussex. CCI 96.3308. ABC Plate coin
This coin comes with a previous label.
Regni/Regini
The Regni, sometimes referred to as the Regini, appear to have occupied what is today the western portion of West Sussex – their tribal civitas probably underlying what became the Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). Regnian coinage is characterised not only by its sheer diversity, but also scarcity. Indeed, many of the key types are extremely rare. This is perhaps exemplified best by many of the tribe’s quarter-staters, of which no fewer than forty varieties are listed by ABC.
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