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Lot
# 8 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$500
/ Price Realized: US$700
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Celtic, Britain, Atrebates. Verica. Gold Quarter Stater
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Celtic, Britain, Atrebates. Verica. c. 10-42 AD. Gold Quarter Stater, 1.19gg. (9h). , First coinage, c. 10-20 AD. Obv: COM F on inset tablet, pellet in circle above and the same below. Rx: [T]IN[C], Celticized horse right. Van Arsdell 466-1. Mint State.
Ex Philip T. Ashton Collection. Ex Berk 122, 6 September 2001, lot 6.
Verica was the king whose flight to Rome in 42 AD prompted the Claudian invasion of Britain in the following year.
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