British Coins and Numismatic Books

East Wiltshire, Unit, crude head right, hair composed of crescents and annulets, sunburst on chin, pellets, annulets and lines in front and below, rev. horse left, surrounded by annulets, small cross in large annulet below, 1.00g/10h (ABC –; BMC –; VA –; S –). On a slightly oval flan, about very fine, the variety apparently unpublished, possibly UNIQUE
£300-400

The coin is certainly within the Dobunni/East Wiltshire group of units – the ‘sunburst’ on the chin placing it close to Rudd 2119. Quite what the complex group of ornaments in front of the face is supposed to represent still eludes the cataloguer at the time of going to press