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People doing die studies? I have 31 examples of the same type with 9 of the from the same die pair. Four examples of a type seems pedestrian.

Nice coin and nice writeup. Durotrigan coins are my favourite. Here are some of my Celtic coins (both sides are shown, so it's only half as many as it looks):

I find slabbing a parasitic and polluting industry and I don't want my money encouraging it. That, along with the hassle and risk of deslabbing them, means I generally avoid slabbed coins. I have bought one because I needed it for a die study and I was feeling impatient, but I normally ignore the slabbed coins and wait until a raw version comes along.

It's an interesting one. Overall the style is ok, the strike and reverse detail are as expected (on great coins of course), and these later coins could be quite flat compared to the earlier ones. The damage to the M on the obverse looks a bit fake though. It's a Class 7c Arc Stem from dies 74/127 which has one known example. Unfortunately there are multiple examples of this coin so it's not clear which one is the real one (if any of them): The British Museum (CCI 68.0371 card 1; unfortunately not in their online collection), Baldwins (CCI 68.0371 card 2), Colchester Musem (CCI 68.0371 card 3), SNC April 1977 (CCI 68.0371 card 4), Spinks 1990 (CCI 68.0371 card 6), and a modern AR forgery (CCI 62.0026). The coin you posted is identical to those so it's a modern forgery. It's possibly a reproduction made to sell in museum shops. There are other coins listed with the same obverse die but different reverses some of which are real (for example CCI 14.0930) and some which seem to be fake (for example CCI 04.0602). This one (CCI 14.0930) is a genuine one from the same obverse but from the next reverse die: Here's mine for fun (not sure which dies):

Verica doesn't have any bronze coins attributed to him; just gold and silver. As the seller has attributed it to Verica he/she should be able to give you a standard reference for it, or at least explain the Verica link.

It's a reproduction. The post had the link to the sales page for the reproduction https://www.museumreproductions.co.uk/shop/viewitem.php?productid=319 [EDIT I should have read to the end before answering. John already gave the link]

Many thanks @Edessa - it's great to have another findspot for these

Hi Edessa - lovely coin 🙂 Would it be possible to get a photo of the ticket? This coin is part of my die study and the extra information on it looks like it could be useful.

I've written two technical books in Word (digital electronics and software) and I'm working on my third (coins). It's fine despite what some people say. The publisher took the last one and converted it to InDesign but they didn’t change any of the layout, fonts, numbering, etc, so I'm not sure why they bothered. Good luck

Nice coins 🙂. I'm a fan of the Kolchis imitations. I only have a Lysimachus one though:

It's hard to say. I've checked all [1] the coins recorded from these dies and this is the only one that shows the roundel in front of the horse. The roundel is poorly engraved on a number of other dies so it might have been this shape from the start. Die breaks on the obverse and reverse put Lee's coin after the CR one, and the entire paw (actually a hairlock) seems to be broken on that, so it does look like Lee's is recut, although it would be nice to see some other coins that show this portion as well to be sure. [1] Caveat - some of the coins don't have die numbers assigned to them so I can't be sure they aren't matches. I quick check suggests that they aren't, but I'm not die matching them to be 100% sure

Fair enough - I just thought it would save you some time if value was the information you were after.

What is it you still want to know? John Sills won't value it for you and will probably just direct you to Liz at Chris Rudd Ltd.

Nice find Lee 🙂. ABC is 12 years old and many of the rarity ratings are out of date now. If it was listed as scarce in a Chris Rudd auction then it's at least scarce now (51 to 100 coins). I've just checked and there are 86 recorded in the CCI at the moment. If you are on Facebook and want to find out more about Celtic coins, I can recomend this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2375591872472089

This is an important hoard (technically two hoards) and it's nice to see that the museum have made a good job of displaying it. There's a bit more information about it here: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/889614