Lot 4026
Celtic Coinage. Northern Gaul. The Ambiani. Gold Stater (7.34 g, 28 mm). 2nd century B.C. Head with broad wreath and stylized hair to left. Reverse: Horse with driver to left, surrounded by pellets and rings with pellets, floral star below, geometric pattern in exergue. Sills 290 (this coin). BNJ 9, 1912, pl. 6, 145 (this coin). Scheers, Traité pl. 3, 63. Scheers, Collection Danicourt 284. Struck on an unusually broad flan. Very Fine, with some edge marks. Very rare.
Numerous staters of the Ambiani have been found in southeastern England and may be representative of emigration from northern Gaul into Britain and/or of a brisk cross-Channel trade pre-existing the Roman infiltration of the region.
Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000.
Ex Leu Numismatics 79, 31 October 2000, lot 7; Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby's, 22 April 1999, lot 8); B. Roth Collection (Sotheby's, 14 October 1918, lot 526.) Found at Notley, Essex in 1834.
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