Ancient Coins from the Collection of the Late Robert Erskine

British Iron Age, BELGAE, Early Uninscribed issues, Stater, British B [Chute type], degraded head of Apollo right, rev. horse left with box head, pellets above, coffee-bean and three strokes behind, crab-like object and starfish below, 6.15g (CCI 91.0150 = BNJ 1988, pl.4, 21, this coin; ABC 746; BMC 35ff; VA 1205-5; S 22). Some areas of weakness, otherwise very fine and well centred £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ancient Coins from the Collection of the Late Robert Erskine.

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Found as part of the Whitchurch, Hampshire, Hoard in 1987; Bt D. Miller 1988