Lot 4609

Description

Ancient British, East Anglia Region, Uninscribed coins, Iceni, Freckenham Flower type, (c.50-40 B.C.), gold stater,

(5.40 g), obv. large three petal flower in plain ring, plain curved line in angles, rev. horse to right with large open head, short dashes for mane and tail, large six pointed wheel above, ring with central line below, pellets around, (S.428 var, ABC 1432, Van A 626-7 var, EA 7, BMC 3410-19, M 403a/403c var). Attractive rose gold, well struck horse, full wheel, good very fine - nearly extremely fine and an excessively rare variant.

Private purchase from Chris Rudd, list 109, #28.



Ex H.R.Mossop Collection, Glendining & Co, 6 November, 1991, lot 74.



This stater is an excessively rare variant of the Freckenham Flower type with only one line running across the wheel below the horse. It was found in Saham Toney, Norfolk in 1986.