Hammered gold coins

Celtic gold coin

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:19:48 GMT

Celtic gold coin

Gallo Belgic 50BC Celtic gold stater 6.38g, 16.96mm

Celtic gold coin

admin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:33:44 GMT

Celtic gold coin

Gallo Belic 50 BC Celtic gold full stater 6.30g, 17.59mm sent to CCI for recording

Celtic gold stater

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:42:00 GMT

Celtic gold stater

50 BC Gallo Belgic Celtic gold stater - 17.42mm, 6.19g sent to CCI for recording

Medieval hammered gold coin

admin — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:10:35 GMT

Medieval hammered gold coin

Amazing discovery - this rolled up coin turns out to be part of a monster sized gold coin,

Edward III 1351-52 full noble, closed E & C type approx 36mm dia 136.7 grains. note the straightened 1/4 nobel for size comparison.

Edward III gold noble coin

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:15:32 GMT

Edward III gold noble coin

1344 Edward III gold qtr noble - 3.89g

Celtic gold stater

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:40:24 GMT

Celtic gold stater

Cunobelin Celtic gold stater 5.44g, 17.89mm - Northern Gold 'Linear type'

Obv corn ear,to 1 CA, to r.MV, below CA cross

Rev horse r ., pellet, leaf q & pellet, below CVN, pellet boarder va 1925 Ref Hobbs

Celtic gold qtr stater coin

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:11:54 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater coin

1.26g, 13.19mm

Celtic gold 1/4 stater Addedomarus Floral Trinovantes tribe, 30 BC sent to CCI for recording

Medieval gold coin

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:05:38 GMT

Medieval gold coin

Fourth coinage 1356-61 Edward III hammered gold 1/4 Noble Type C Annulet stops 1.96g, 20.36mm

Obv shield quartered with the arms of England and France within a treassure of eight arches - EDWARD GRA REX :ANG. . HY Cross 3(4 )

Rev EXALTABITAR IN GLORIA

70BC Celtic gold coin

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:28:17 GMT

70BC Celtic gold coin

70BC Morini 'boat tree' Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording

11.07mm, 1.48g

Roman gold coin

admin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:47:34 GMT

Roman gold coin

388 AD Theodosius I 4.40g, 20.26mm

This is a Solidus - the denomination introduced by Constantine the great which would continue to be struck with very little variation in weight or fineness for nearly another thousand years as it became the flagship coin of the Byzantine empire.

Your specimen was minted at Trier, between 388 and 392 A.D. The "COM" in the exergue refers to it being pure gold - the mint designation is the T - R to either side of the two characters on the reverse - who are meant to be 2 co-regnal emperors - the basic design goes back to the time of Valentinian I and Valens, but continued until, at this time, it was supposed to be Valentinian II and Theodosius I as the 2 senior Augusti, there was however (throughout the era) a 3rd and even, at times, a 4th emperor.

The obverse legend is D N THEODOSIVS P F AVG - with the normal diademed draped and cuirassed bust right.

The reverse is VICTORIA AVGG (the 2 "G's" abbreviating "Augustorum" referring to multiple emperors) and shows the 2 emperors, presumably Valentinian II and Theodosius I seated facing, holding a globe between them, the top half of Victory between and spreading her wings above them.

RIC IX Trier 90b.

English Saxon gold coin

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:13:44 GMT

English Saxon gold coin

English Saxon Thrymsa gold coin - 'Witmen type' c620 -650 AD named after the hoard found in 1828.

English Saxon Thrysmas gold coin - Crondall type c620 -650 AD named after the hoard found in 1828. Sent off to the Fitzmuseum Corpus database for recording 1.26g, 11.46mm

'Witmen type'

Celtic gold coin

admin — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:10:09 GMT

Celtic gold coin

5.73g, 17.13mm

'This is quite a rare type, as you no doubt appreciate. The best parallel is provided by three coins in the British Museum, listed in their catalogue as nos. 3353-55. It's one of a group of coins loosely described as the Snettisham staters, because several of the types were first recognized in one of the Snettisham (Norfolk) hoards of the early 1990s. The exact type is not in Van Arsdell although it's closely related to the North Thames types listed as VA 1500, 1502 and thereabouts. It is presumably an East Anglian type, although because of the stylistic similarities there must have been some very strong link between the producers of the Snettisham types and the North Thames types. Date c. 50 - 40 BC, I think.

I'll record it as CCI 07.1164. '

Celtic gold coin

admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:09:06 GMT

Celtic gold coin

Dubnovellaunus Late 1st BC to Early 1stC AD Full Celtic gold stater

5.44g,17.57mm - CCI 07.1130.

Celtic gold qtr stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:00:57 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater

1stC Cunobelin gold Qtr stater 10 to 40 AD 1.23g 10mm

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:56:50 GMT

Celtic gold stater

1stC Celtic gold stater Addedomaros 45- 30 BC - 5.56g 17mm

CCI 05.0211

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:53:02 GMT

Celtic gold stater

Celtic gold stater Addedomaros 37 BC 5.54 g 17mm CCI 05.0213

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:50:29 GMT

Celtic gold stater

Celtic gold stater Addedomaros 37 BC coin 5.64g 16mm CCI 05.0212

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:24:02 GMT

Celtic gold stater

45 BC Addedomaros Celtic gold full stater

'Well, this is a nice one, and as you say with those intriguing symbols above the horse visible. What they seem to be is three horse's muzzles - on some dies they are virtually identical to the muzzle actually on the horse. Curiously, at roughly the same time that Addedomaros was using this motif on his staters, so was Commios, down in Hampshire. In fact since Commios is generally dated a little earlier than Addedomaros, it's not impossible that the latter encountered one of Commios's staters and decided to copy this feature. It quite often appears blundered, which suggests that the die engravers didn't always know what they were looking at. I'll record this one as CCI 05.0603, and I look forward to more!

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:18:08 GMT

Celtic gold stater

'Snettisham' type ? Celtic gold full stater 5.85g - 17.05mm

'Having seen this one I've had to think again about 05.0680, the Whaddon Chase type I wrote about earlier. Although quite different in their individual style these are probably both the same variety of WC stater, actually listed as VA 1498. This is a rather puzzling type because it's not clear whether it really belongs to the WC group or - as you suggested - the Snettisham type. There are 18 examples of it here and those with findspots are a mixture of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk - on that basis it could arguably be either WC or Snettisham. In terms of style, they are perhaps among the very last WC staters rather than being the first Snettisham, which appear to have been based on the Whaddon Chase design. In terms of date this might only be a difference of a few months, and almost certainly not more than a few years, so it's perhaps unreasonable to expect we'll be able to tie it down quite so neatly. CCI 05.0687'.

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:06:26 GMT

Celtic gold stater

45BC Addedomaros Celtic gold full stater 18.62 mm - 5.48 g

'that's a fine coin to start the season with! It'll be CCI 06.0412.'