Part 27: A Few Ancients
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Celtic - Gaul - The Coriosolites (Jersey)
Billon Stater c. 1st Century B.C.
Obverse: Celticized head facing right. Reverse: Human head horse right.
6.35 grams.
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Celtic - Gaul - The Coriosolites (Jersey)
AR Stater c. 1st Century B.C.
Obverse: Celticized head facing right. Reverse: Human head horse right.
6.50 grams.
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Celtic - Gaul - Jersey
AR Stater c. 3rd to 2nd Century B.C.
A scarce silver stater. Celtic head right, horse on the reverse.
6.48 grams.
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AR10 c. 2nd to 1st Century B.C.
No Reserve!
Head facing left, ESVIOS. Lion facing left. De La Tour 10380
0.29 grams, approx. 9.5 to 10mm in diameter.
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Celtic. Armorican. 1st Century BC. Billon Stater (6.68 gm). Class II. Celticized head right / Stylized horse right, boar below.
Seaby 15. EF, uneven strike. Brown patina.
Said to be ex Le Catillon, Grouville (Jersey) Hoard, 22 January 1957.
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Celtic. Armorican. circa 75-50 BC. Billon Stater -- Seaby 13.
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Tours France, XII Century Denier (0.86 grams) Cross/Chatel tournois.
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Philip IV, 1285-1314, AR Gros Tournois. Cross, name/Stylized castle, denomination
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Philip V, 1316-1322, AR Gros Tournois. Castle/Cross, lgds. around each
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CELTIC BRITAIN c.75-50 BC 1/4 Stater F.
Seaby-20. The coin is a Gallo-Belgic influenced Armorican type 1/4 stater struck for use in the Channel Islands and North-Western Gaul c.75-50BC. Class V obv. Heard right. Rev. Horse with reins,
lash ends in long cross with four pellets.
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Channel Islands billon stater, (6.39g) circa. 56 BC
Degraded male head right.
Horse right. S110.
This coin is, by Colbert de Beaulieu's classification, a Class II
Coriosolite. In John Hooker's forthcoming book, he has reattributed these coins
to the Unelli tribe in what is now Normandy.
This issue dates to early 56 BC, and was issued by Viridovix of the
Unelli, who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Armorican forces that
were defeated by Sabinus in 56 BC. These coins were paid out in large
sums to chieftains for the use of their warriors as mercenaries.
Later, many of these coins were taken to Jersey and hidden, pending
trade with Hengistbury, where the Durotriges recycled them.
Hooker's new classification for this coin is Series Z, Group O (Unelli). He
still associates them with Coriosolite coins as they are copied from
that design. These coins can also be viewed as a federal coinage as
Katherine Gruel proposes, although unlike to him, she believes that it
would also include Classes I and III. She seems also unaware of the
finds of these coins in Normandy and as far north as the mouth of the
Seine.
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