NORTHWEST GAUL. Abrincatui. Circa 60-50 BC. Stater (Billon, 20 mm, 6.20 g, 9 h). Lunate head of Armorican sun-god right, with crescentic hairline and cranial boar above three S-shaped hairlocks. Rev. Devolved linear chariot-horse right, with human head, two-line tail, and a stylised driver; before, square X-type beaded banner on lash; below, V-form lyre symbol with five knobbed lines radiating from ringed-pellet, cupped by straggly beaded cordon. DT 2285 var. LT J 32 var. Cf. Rybot 97, 99. Nicely toned. Porous and with some edge bumps, otherwise, very fine.



The Chris Rudd list includes a note regarding this coin from Dr. Philip de Jersey, which states 'this most unusual silver stater seems to have been made in a hurry, because it bears the marks of the moneyer’s tongs... Christoph Bodmer’s beautiful example is closest in style to the 27 Boar Type B staters from Le Câtillon II, but not one of them is of the same type as Bodmer’s, which is most like DT 2285 (BN 10389H), which came from the Trinity hoard, Jersey, 1875'.