Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1231. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC ENGLAND. Trinovantes in Essex and Suffolk. Dubnovellaunos. Circa 25-10 BC. AV Stater (5.44 gm). Banded flan with wreath motif, crescents, and ringed-pellets forming two juxtaposed ‘sad’ hidden faces / [DVB]NOVIILLL, horse galloping left; pellet to left, pellet in ring above, two pellets around tail, branch and pellet in ring below. Hobbs 2426, Van Arsdell 1655-9 corr. (mis-described); SCBC 207. CCI 01.0548. EF, rose gold. Extremely rare, only six others recorded. [See color enlargement on plate 22] ($1500)

From the Michael Richards Collection. Ex Chris Rudd FPL 60 (2001) no. 69; found Kelvedon, Essex, 15 February 2001, and seen by Dr Paul Sealey of Colchester Museum.