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Normandy Sword. Celtic gold quarter stater. Baiocasses. c.250-175 BC. 11mm. 1.92g.
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Aylsham, Norfolk
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Normandy Sword. Ram’s Horn Hair Type with Hammer and Snakes. Baiocasses. c.250-175 BC. Celtic gold quarter stater. 11mm. 1.92g. Apollo head r, with heavy eyebrow, crescentic ear, three ‘ram’s horn’ hairlocks and ‘double stitch’ fillet./ Horse r, with charioteer holding goad and reins, below: horizontal sword with anthropomorphic hilt, before: short-handled hammer and snake, in exergue: another snake. LT–, BN–, DT–, de Jersey–, Scheers–, Sills–. New type? Apparently unrecorded and unpublished by major catalogues. Tiny depression on cheek, otherwise EF and virtually as minted, golden gold, superb head of fine Celtic style, well centred both sides. Found near Folkestone, Kent, 9 August 2015. An exceptional Armorican quarter stater of the highest rarity, possibly Unique?
Dr Philip de Jersey, author of Coinage in Iron Age Armorica (OUCA 1994), says: “I don’t know of a match for this quarter” (pers.comm. 18 September 2015). It’s the only one I’ve seen which combines an Apollo head with ‘ram’s horn’ hairlocks with a reverse which features not only a anthropoid-hilted sword, but also a huge hammer in front of the horse, with a snake before and below. This seems to be the first recorded Normandy Sword coin found in Britain.
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Normandy Sword. Ram’s Horn Hair Type with Hammer and Snakes. Baiocasses. c.250-175 BC. Celtic gold quarter stater. 11mm. 1.92g. Apollo head r, with heavy eyebrow, crescentic ear, three ‘ram’s horn’ hairlocks and ‘double stitch’ fillet./ Horse r, with charioteer holding goad and reins, below: horizontal sword with anthropomorphic hilt, before: short-handled hammer and snake, in exergue: another snake. LT–, BN–, DT–, de Jersey–, Scheers–, Sills–. New type? Apparently unrecorded and unpublished by major catalogues. Tiny depression on cheek, otherwise EF and virtually as minted, golden gold, superb head of fine Celtic style, well centred both sides. Found near Folkestone, Kent, 9 August 2015. An exceptional Armorican quarter stater of the highest rarity, possibly Unique?
Dr Philip de Jersey, author of Coinage in Iron Age Armorica (OUCA 1994), says: “I don’t know of a match for this quarter” (pers.comm. 18 September 2015). It’s the only one I’ve seen which combines an Apollo head with ‘ram’s horn’ hairlocks with a reverse which features not only a anthropoid-hilted sword, but also a huge hammer in front of the horse, with a snake before and below. This seems to be the first recorded Normandy Sword coin found in Britain.
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