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Tincomarus Alfriston. c.25BC-AD10. Celtic gold stater. 16mm. 5.46g.
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Aylsham, Norfolk
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Tincomarus Alfriston. c.25BC-AD10. Gold stater. 16mm. 5.46g. Wreath motif with downward-facing leaves, snake’s head below./ Disjointed triple-tailed horse right, trefoil under chin, above: carnyx (war trumpet), corded line and small ring, TIN and upside-down ‘anchor’ motif; large wheel below, [COMA] RVS around. ABC 1049, VA 363, BMC 761-64, S 72. Good EF, scintillating rose-gold, bold strike, well centred horse, sharp TIN. Unquestionably the best example we’ve had of this historic stater and one of the finest known. RARE.
This magnificent gold stater – one of the loveliest of its kind – was struck by Tincomarus ‘Great in Peace’, son of the legendary King Commios of the Atrebates and supplicant of the emperor Augustus (Res Gestae 32.1), perhaps sometime between 16 and 13 BC when Augustus was in Gaul. We named this superb stater after one from the Alfriston hoard, found around 1824 “at or near the Burnt House”, Alfriston, East Sussex, reported to the Numismatic Society by Charles Roach Smith, 23 December 1841, and illustrated by him in the first volume of his Collectanea Antiqua (1848, pl. IV); it was acquired by the British Museum from the sale of Lord Holmesdale’s collection in 1850 (lot 7, CCI 69.0146, Hobbs BMC 761). The obverse of the Alfriston stater is copied directly from the Commios Muzzles stater (ABC 1022); look closely and you can see the same snake-head to the left of the crescentic eyebrows of the same hidden face; the reverse is derived from the Tincomarus Alton type (ABC 1052), “but the style is now wholly native” as Dr John Sills says. Rarely does a Tincomarus stater of such outstanding quality come onto the market. Of the 20 examples in the British Museum, no fewer than 16 came from the East Meon (‘Alton’) hoard, found 11am, 17 March 1996.
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Tincomarus Alfriston. c.25BC-AD10. Gold stater. 16mm. 5.46g. Wreath motif with downward-facing leaves, snake’s head below./ Disjointed triple-tailed horse right, trefoil under chin, above: carnyx (war trumpet), corded line and small ring, TIN and upside-down ‘anchor’ motif; large wheel below, [COMA] RVS around. ABC 1049, VA 363, BMC 761-64, S 72. Good EF, scintillating rose-gold, bold strike, well centred horse, sharp TIN. Unquestionably the best example we’ve had of this historic stater and one of the finest known. RARE.
This magnificent gold stater – one of the loveliest of its kind – was struck by Tincomarus ‘Great in Peace’, son of the legendary King Commios of the Atrebates and supplicant of the emperor Augustus (Res Gestae 32.1), perhaps sometime between 16 and 13 BC when Augustus was in Gaul. We named this superb stater after one from the Alfriston hoard, found around 1824 “at or near the Burnt House”, Alfriston, East Sussex, reported to the Numismatic Society by Charles Roach Smith, 23 December 1841, and illustrated by him in the first volume of his Collectanea Antiqua (1848, pl. IV); it was acquired by the British Museum from the sale of Lord Holmesdale’s collection in 1850 (lot 7, CCI 69.0146, Hobbs BMC 761). The obverse of the Alfriston stater is copied directly from the Commios Muzzles stater (ABC 1022); look closely and you can see the same snake-head to the left of the crescentic eyebrows of the same hidden face; the reverse is derived from the Tincomarus Alton type (ABC 1052), “but the style is now wholly native” as Dr John Sills says. Rarely does a Tincomarus stater of such outstanding quality come onto the market. Of the 20 examples in the British Museum, no fewer than 16 came from the East Meon (‘Alton’) hoard, found 11am, 17 March 1996.
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