Rocketing Celtic Coin Prices in November
Droxford Two Boars silver unit of the Belgae tribe c.50-30 BC. ABC–. Sold for £3,200 ($4,035.20 - USD).
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It wasn’t just gold coins that sparkled in Chris Rudd’s all-Celtic sale held in Norwich on the 19th of November. The Droxford Two Boars silver unit, an excessively rare type with only one other example recorded, sold for £3,200, and a good, extremely fine Whaddon Bird silver unit with a fabulously full bird achieved £2,600.
Whaddon Bird silver unit of the Catuvellauni tribe c.55-45 BC. ABC 2481. Sold for £2,600 ($3,278.60 USD).
Chris Rudd Ltd.
“Once again quality coins are proving popular with our collectors,” says Elizabeth Cottam, director of Chris Rudd Ltd. “It’s always reassuring to see beautiful coins achieving high prices, for instance, an excessively rare Crossed Lines with Lyre gold stater of the Nervii tribe which unusually showed a small figure below the horse sold for £6,500, nearly twice the estimate; a perennially popular Norfolk Wolf type gold stater in extremely fine condition achieved £3,600; a cracking Tasciovanos Tascio Ricon gold stater found at Lichfield, Staffs, on 26 October 2014 went for £3,400; and a Verica Vine Leaf gold stater from the Reading hoard, Hampshire, 1991 realized £3,000.”
Crossed Lines with Lyre gold stater of the Nervii tribe c.115-100 BC. ABC–. Sold for £6,500 ($8,196.50 USD).
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Norfolk Wolf Left gold stater of the Iceni tribe, c.50-35 BC. ABC–. Sold for £3,600 ($4,539.60 USD).
Chris Rudd Ltd.
Tasciovanos Tascio Ricon gold stater of the Catuvellauni tribe c.25BC-AD10. ABC 2580. Sold for £3,400 ($4,287.40 USD).
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Verica Vine Leaf, Prancing Horse gold stater of the Regini & Atrebates tribe, c.AD10-40. ABC–. Sold for £3,000 ($3,783.00 USD).
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The next Chris Rudd auction will be held in Norwich on Sunday, 14 January 2024. For more information, contact Chris Rudd, (44) 1263 735 007, email: liz@celticcoins.com.
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