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Anted Monogram. c.AD20-43? Celtic gold stater. 16-20mm. 5.27g.
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Aylsham, Norfolk
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Anted Monogram. c.AD20-43? Gold stater. 16-20mm. 5.27g. Tree symbol on plain field./ Triple-tailed horse right, ANTED monogram above (conjoined NTE), pellet, crescent and x above, wheel below, beaded ring behind. ABC 2069, VA 1062, BMC 3031, S 379. CCI 18.1260 (this coin). Near EF, very large flan of rose gold, full ANTED, well ornamented. The finest known and the first offered for public sale. EXCESSIVELY RARE only two others recorded, including the one in the British Museum.
25 years ago Terry Howard, a professional drummer, went metal detecting near South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and found the highly important Anted Monogram gold stater shown above, which he reported to Corinium Museum, Cirencester. At the time only one other was known, the one in the British Museum (BMC 3031) which had been found sometime before 1864 and was formerly in the famous Celtic collection of Sir John Evans (1823-1908), the father of Ancient British numismatics and author of Coins of the ancient Britons. Noting the similarity of the Dobunnic monogram (ABC 2069) to the Icenian monogram (ABC 1639), Evans wondered if the Iceni Anted had been forced to go west and became king of the Dobunni. He also speculated that ‘Antedrigus’ might have been the same person as the British king, Arviragus, cited by the Roman poet Juvenal (c.AD 55-140) and the Welsh chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1100-1154). The only other known Anted Monogram stater is the one in the John Philpotts collection, found at Northleach, Gloucestershire, c.2012-13. Commenting on the Philpotts coin, Dr John Sills writes: “It's from a different pair of dies and is nothing like as good as your coin - the only letter visible is the very bottom of the E with part of the N coming off it. Other than that the only way to be certain it's this type is the pellet in ring tree root on the obverse combined with the large pellet ring behind the horse on the reverse, although now yours has emerged two other features they have in common is that the horse's mouth has bold pellet terminals, unlike the rest of the series, and the ear is engraved almost as two small antlers. The pellet in ring tree base is lifted from the uninscribed series and the horse on Philpotts' coin copies Bodvoc, suggesting a die cutter who had not previously worked on the series, who was borrowing elements from a pool of earlier coins. This in turn suggests that he was not local to the region and was unfamiliar with its coinage, which supports the Dobunnic Anted Monogram type copying the Icenian Anted monogram rather than vice versa. This doesn't prove that the two Anteds are one and the same, although it's good supporting evidence if one wanted to make that case. It's important to stress that whoever engraved the Icenian Anted staters was probably not the same person as the Dobunnic die cutter - the Dobunnic engraver uses bold serifs wherever possible and the Icenian engraver doesn't, and even allowing for the fact that they're different types they are stylistically dissimilar. Still coin of the year [2018], by some distance, despite there being two others, numismatically significant and potentially politically significant as well if the two Anteds are the same” (pers.comm. 14.11.2018). Terry Howard’s hugely significant Anted Monogram stater is published in Coin News, May 2019 (this coin) and, thanks to the completeness and clarity of its inscription, is likely to be talked about and quoted for years to come.
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Anted Monogram. c.AD20-43? Gold stater. 16-20mm. 5.27g. Tree symbol on plain field./ Triple-tailed horse right, ANTED monogram above (conjoined NTE), pellet, crescent and x above, wheel below, beaded ring behind. ABC 2069, VA 1062, BMC 3031, S 379. CCI 18.1260 (this coin). Near EF, very large flan of rose gold, full ANTED, well ornamented. The finest known and the first offered for public sale. EXCESSIVELY RARE only two others recorded, including the one in the British Museum.
25 years ago Terry Howard, a professional drummer, went metal detecting near South Cerney, Gloucestershire, and found the highly important Anted Monogram gold stater shown above, which he reported to Corinium Museum, Cirencester. At the time only one other was known, the one in the British Museum (BMC 3031) which had been found sometime before 1864 and was formerly in the famous Celtic collection of Sir John Evans (1823-1908), the father of Ancient British numismatics and author of Coins of the ancient Britons. Noting the similarity of the Dobunnic monogram (ABC 2069) to the Icenian monogram (ABC 1639), Evans wondered if the Iceni Anted had been forced to go west and became king of the Dobunni. He also speculated that ‘Antedrigus’ might have been the same person as the British king, Arviragus, cited by the Roman poet Juvenal (c.AD 55-140) and the Welsh chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1100-1154). The only other known Anted Monogram stater is the one in the John Philpotts collection, found at Northleach, Gloucestershire, c.2012-13. Commenting on the Philpotts coin, Dr John Sills writes: “It's from a different pair of dies and is nothing like as good as your coin - the only letter visible is the very bottom of the E with part of the N coming off it. Other than that the only way to be certain it's this type is the pellet in ring tree root on the obverse combined with the large pellet ring behind the horse on the reverse, although now yours has emerged two other features they have in common is that the horse's mouth has bold pellet terminals, unlike the rest of the series, and the ear is engraved almost as two small antlers. The pellet in ring tree base is lifted from the uninscribed series and the horse on Philpotts' coin copies Bodvoc, suggesting a die cutter who had not previously worked on the series, who was borrowing elements from a pool of earlier coins. This in turn suggests that he was not local to the region and was unfamiliar with its coinage, which supports the Dobunnic Anted Monogram type copying the Icenian Anted monogram rather than vice versa. This doesn't prove that the two Anteds are one and the same, although it's good supporting evidence if one wanted to make that case. It's important to stress that whoever engraved the Icenian Anted staters was probably not the same person as the Dobunnic die cutter - the Dobunnic engraver uses bold serifs wherever possible and the Icenian engraver doesn't, and even allowing for the fact that they're different types they are stylistically dissimilar. Still coin of the year [2018], by some distance, despite there being two others, numismatically significant and potentially politically significant as well if the two Anteds are the same” (pers.comm. 14.11.2018). Terry Howard’s hugely significant Anted Monogram stater is published in Coin News, May 2019 (this coin) and, thanks to the completeness and clarity of its inscription, is likely to be talked about and quoted for years to come.
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