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A silver three piece condiment set with Celtic bands, comprising salt, pepper and mustard, Birmingham 1965 and 1967 by Mappin & Webb, together with two silver spoons, cased, a set of six silver teaspoons, cased, a silver cigarette box, Birmingham 1954 and a silver cigarette case, Birmingham 1956, both with engine turned decoration.
Unit, ‘Abingdon Head’ type, female Celtic head left with crescents and beaded hair, heart-shaped ear, pellet-in-annulet behind, rev. horse right with smaller horse below, above and upside-down, a small chubby horse with beaded mane, 1.09g/10h (BMC Ð; VA Ð; S Ð; SNC May 1998, p.150). Of good silver, extremely fine with a striking portrait, extremely rare; by far the finest of a handful of known examples Provenance: Found in Wiltshire January 2005; C. Rudd FPL 81, May 2005 (31). CCI 05.0127 This coin is part of a small and rare series probably struck by a tribe in the Berkshire/South Oxfordshire/Wiltshire region around the period 55-45 BC. Other coins in the series show a remarkable resemblance to rare Gallo-Belgic bronzes normally attributed to the Ambiani. Quite what the connection is between these coins and their Gallo-Belgic prototypes must remain, for the moment, the subject of speculation
Unit, ‘Amersham Moon Man’ type, Celtic head left with crescents and braided hair, rev. triple-tailed, annuleted horse left, pellet-in-ring above, leaf below, 1.04g/9h (BMC Ð; VA Ð; Coin Register, BNJ 1989, pl.20, 7, this coin; S Ð). Fine silver, good very fine with a striking portrait, extremely rare Provenance: Found at Amersham (Buckinghamshire) 1989; ‘Cotswold’ Collection; C. Rudd FPL 75, May 2004 (44). CCI 89.0233. An important discovery coin Ð the original Amersham Moon Man, after which all others are named Ð and still one of the finest known
Stater, Wild type, ear of barley dividing CAMV, rev. horse prancing right, heart-shaped ornament between front legs, branch and five-pointed star above, CVN[O] below, 5.48g/11h (BMC 1793; VA 1931-3; cf. S 283). Good very fine or better, lovely rose-gold surfaces, excessively rare Provenance: Found at Didcot (Oxfordshire); C. Rudd FPL 78, November 2004 (62). CCI 03.1407 This extremely rare variety of the Wild type Stater has a distinctive heart-shaped ornament between the horse’s forelegs. The evolution of the coinage from a typical Celtic style to a more Romanized classical style suggests that the coins were issued over a considerable period, perhaps some 20 to 30 years, at a time when Roman influence on the native tribes was considerable
Lengyel, L., L’Art Gaulois dans le mŽdailles, Montrouge-Seine, 1954, 59pp, 48 fine plates, casebound; Allen, D.F., SCBI 3: The Coins of the Coritani, London, 1963, 44pp, 8 plates and accompanying text, dj and protective cover; Creighton, J., Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge, 2000, xiii + 249pp, illustrations in text, dj [3]. All very fine copies, the first with some superb images of Celtic coins

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