Hammered gold coins

Celtic gold coin

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:03:56 GMT

Celtic gold coin

1stC BC Celtic gold qtr stater - Eastern gold attributed to Dvbnovellaunos tribe

Sent to CCI for recording 1.34g,11.67mm

Hobbs 2442 Page 146 Colchester find

Celtic gold 1/4 stater

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:34:56 GMT

Celtic gold 1/4 stater

Celtic gold qtr stater 13.56,1.29mm

'Your latest quarter is the 'Heybridge Horse' type, not in VA or any of the other catalogues as you say. There are eight others known of the standard type with a pellet below the horse plus a unique variety with a spiral below. All the known finds are from Essex so it's almost certainly a Trinovantian issue that probably circulated alongside late Whaddon Chase staters of VA 1498-1502 type to judge from the very similar horse; datewise probably struck somewhere in the 40s BC.

I've been using up the last of the 09 Index numbers so you can have the first of my 2010 numbers for this one, 10.2000.

All the best

John '

Celtic gold 1/4 stater

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:21:36 GMT

Celtic gold 1/4 stater

Possible 50BC Remi tribe Celtic gold 1/4 stater - sent to CCI for recording and ID

1.14g,12.55mm

Edward III gold coin

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:09:52 GMT

Edward III gold coin

1346-1361 Edward III gold half noble - Closed E at centre of cross - Cross 3 - Pre treaty

Obv EDWAR D GRA (DEI G) REX ANGL AZ FRANC

25.10mm, 3.80g

Celtic gold coin

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:14:16 GMT

Celtic gold coin

10 to 40 AD Cunobelin Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording

12.41mm, 1.26g

Edward III gold noble coin

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:12:41 GMT

Edward III gold noble coin

Taco'd Circa 1350 Edward hammered gold 1/4 noble - Cross 3 -Needs straightening to ID exact type from rev shield.

Obv + EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL

Rev

18.92mm. 1.9g

Celtic gold full stater

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:18:49 GMT

Celtic gold full stater

45 BC Addedomaros Celtic gold coin 18.64mm, 5.61g sent to CCI for recording Very unusual die strike - gold appears to be in an almost non moldern state during the strike

Celtic gold qtr stater

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:17:07 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater

70BC Morini 'boat tree' type Celtic gold 1/4 stater 1.48g, 10.28 mm

Celtic gold qtr stater

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:15:37 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater

70BC Morini 'boat tree' type Celtic gold 1/4 stater 1.46g, 11.33 mm

Celtic gold coin

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:57:31 GMT

Celtic gold coin

Very interesting die type of a 10 to 40 AD Cunobelin 1/4 gold stater - note the blocked horse. Sent to Celtic Coin index for recording and more information on type 0.83g, 11.84mm

Celtic gold coin

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:52:21 GMT

Celtic gold coin

Celtic gold stater 16.76mm,5.89g

Currently being recorded with the CCI, feed back from a simialar one found last year from Dr Philp de Jersey

'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.

James 1st gold coin

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:32:57 GMT

James 1st gold coin

1619 -25 James 1st hammered gold Quarter-laurel - 2.24g, 19.46mm 2nd coinage

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

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.'

Celtic gold qtr stater

admin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:25:05 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater

50BC Trinovantes Celtic gold (Clacton type) 1/4 stater - 1.13g, 13.71g CCI 06.0188

Celtic gold qtr stater

admin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:22:20 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater

Trinovantes Clacton type Celtic gold 1/4 stater 50BC 1.25g, 12.94mm

'Clacton quarter is CCI 07.0124. The Clacton looks like one of the last issues of the type, with a fairly simple design of a mass of pellets over the horse

Celtic gold stater

admin — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:00:32 GMT

Celtic gold stater

'It's a very nice example of one of the rarer Clacton types - only just over 20 of the basic type (VA 1458) are recorded, and there are some variations within that group (mostly in minor elements of decoration, and in particular the form of the 'flower' beneath the horse)'. It will be CCI 04.0481. '70 BC Found by Nevada Gary

Celtic gold qtr stater

admin — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:55:16 GMT

Celtic gold qtr stater

One of a kind Celtic gold 1/4 stater found by Alaskan George

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"it's an early (perhaps c. 50-40 BC) quarter stater, possibly produced in Essex.
It seems to have developed out of the Gallo-Belgic D quarter stater (Van Arsdell
69), imported in large quantities into Britain from Belgic Gaul, possibly with
some influence from the so-called 'Kentish trophy type' (Van Arsdell 147) of a
very similar period.

This particular type is unpublished in any major catalogue,

Celtic gold stater

admin — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:51:23 GMT

Celtic gold stater

Celtic gold stater 'Whadden Chase' type 5.95g, 17.68 mm

The Whaddon Chase stater (yes, it is that type) will be CCI 05.0680. These coins are probably not very much earlier than the Addedomaros staters - it all depends really on when one dates the Addedomaros issue. It seems fairly certain that the Whaddon Chase staters could be from the later stages of the Gallic War, say about 54 BC at the earliest; they could be a little bit later, but are unlikely to be after say 40 BC at the very latest. If Addedomaros's spiral staters are his latest stater issues, then they could be somewhere around 30-25 BC, so perhaps up to 25 years later than Whaddon Chase. It just depends where each type fits, and we don't have an exact idea. I suppose it's true to say though that there is almost certainly a minimum of ten years between them, and more likely 20.

One of my colleagues recently suggested that the WC staters were issued by Cassivellaunus, to pay off Caesar during the Gallic War. They certainly seem to be found mostly in the territory of the Catuvellauni (so this one would be a bit further east than usual . The main catalogue reference for this type is VA 1476 in Van Arsdell's 'Celtic Coinage of Britain'. They're relatively common (300 or so recorded) but a lot of these are finds from the original WC hoard, found in Bucks in 1849.

Celtic gold stater

admin — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:20:34 GMT

Celtic gold stater

CCI 04.0479 'linear' series, VA 1925-1. The earliest of these three, perhaps from c. 20 AD, and a little rarer, with about 60 recorded here. Again there is a coin in the BM from the same pair of dies, BMC 1783. There are a couple of rather unusual features to the dies - although not clear on your example because of the position it has been struck, there appears to be no V on the end of CAMV, and there's also a mark - perhaps some kind of privy mark - after the CVN on the reverse, you can just see the top of what looks like a letter I between the N and the horse'sfront legs on your coin.

Celtic gold coin

admin — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:18:17 GMT

Celtic gold coin

CCI 04.0478 'plastic A' series, VA 2010-3. Believed to have preceded the classic type, so perhaps from c. 25 - 35 AD. About ninety of these are recorded here, and again there are a number of matches for both of these dies, including at least one coin in the British Museum (BMC 1819 in Hobbs's Catalogue of Iron Age coins in the BM).

Celtic gold coin

admin — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:14:42 GMT

Celtic gold coin

Celtic gold stater Cunobelin 1stC 30AD 'A' series

CCI 04.0477 'classic A' series, VA 2027-1. Generally believed to have been the last major series of his gold, so probably dating from the 30s AD. There are three or four matches for this particular pair of dies in the CCI, among the c. 100 of the basic type. The decoration at the base of the corn-ear is a bit more showy than usual.