Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 33. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Britain. Catuvellauni. Tasciovanos. Circa 20 BC-10 AD. AR Unit (1.20 gm). Pegasus Star Type. TASC in rectangular box on vertical wreath motif / Winged horse flying left, raised tail with pellet above and below. Hobbs 1664-65; Van Arsdell 1798; SCBC 237. VF, light porosity, large flan, full TASC. Extremely rare. ($300)

Found Wallington, Oxon, early March 2002.

The vertical band is all that remains of Apollo’s wreath on the gold staters of Philip II of Macedon. This is one of the rarest silver coins of Tasciovanos and in better condition than the British Museum’s two examples.