Regini 1st Century BC Wonersh Gold Quarter Stater *Excessively Rare*
£3,750.00
Regini
1st Century BC Wonersh Gold Quarter Stater
Excessively rare, 6 known
ABC 617, 9mm, 1.06g
Obverse – Two plain crescents at centre of simplified Apollo wreath cross. Row of vertical hair curls in top left and bottom right angles, cloak in top right, crescent curl in bottom left.
Reverse – Horse left, pellet mane. Petalled moon (ringed pellet in pellet ring) above. Floral sun (sunburst rosette) below.
Sills DK 201 (1 obverse, 1 reverse die): Early Southern Local Issues; North Thames Derivatives; Quarter Staters: Wonersh Left. Based on the Wonersh stater (ABC 527).
Provenance
This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins.
M Vosper PT, 04.11.1996. CCI 98.2158
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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