55 - S-Type - The TCx3 Collection

Unique ID: 55

Technical details

DataDescriptionProvenanceReferences

Denomination	Quarter Stater	Metal	Gold
Area	Britain	Region	North Thames
Issuing Authority	Segontiaci	Issuer	Unknown
Weight	1.29g	Diameter	10.85mm
Rarity	Very Rare (16 to 30)	Date	53 BC to 40 BC (see note about dating)

Obverse Legend	No Legend
Reverse Legend	No Legend
Obverse Description	The obverse is blank apart from an S and two faint bands. This banding is common on Cantiaci gold coins.
Reverse Description	The reverse centres around a tree like object (also called a trophy) with a thin trunk and four thin branches; two at each side. At its base is a ringed pellet with two roots. Each root ends in a ringed pellet although the one on the right is off flan. To the left and right of the trunk are two hollow oblongs with wave patterns within. Above these, level with the lower branches, are two thin lines, although the one on the right is just a trace. Directly above the tree is a hollow cogwheel. To its left and right are ringed pellets, and further to the left is a crescent and a ring. It’s unknown if these would have appeared on the right side as well because the coins that this derived from were asymetrical.

Bt. Mike Vosper (2019)

Ex. Unknown American collector

Noble Numismatics Sale 115 Lot 4633. 28th of July 2017

Chris Rudd List 94

CCI 07.0409

Found Hockwold, Norfolk 5th of February 2007.

ABC	ABC 2249. S-Type
Divided Kingdoms	DK 451. British Le2 – S Type

The S-Type quarter stater is part of the British Le2 series which was minted by an unknown tribe in the Essex area. There are four types of Le2 quarter staters, the others being Double Snake (see 57), Floret (see 60), and Beaded Trophy (see 56), all featuring the banded obverses that were a staple of the coins from Kent. They also all have reverses derived from GB-D, which is also common for Kentish coins (see 44), suggesting that the tribe responsible had emigrated from Kent to North of the Thames. Caesar named five tribes who surrendered to him north of the Thames, and the S on the obverse of this type suggests that it might have been the Segontiaci.

This particular coin is obverse die 2 and reverse die 4, and is the only coin known from this reverse die.