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Rainer Kretz says: “This
attractive and well-centred
stater forms part of a small
issue towards the end of
Tasciovanos’ first coinage. It
features a simplified obverse -
my obv. type C - and is
characterized by prominent
crescents and the loss of four
of the ringed pellets of the
earlier types, which have now
become ordinary pellets. This
particular obverse is always
associated with my Rev. Type
III, showing a more elegant
Roman-style horse, quite
distinct from the Celticized
ponies of the earliest issues.
As is common within this series,
the inscription, which would
most probably have read
TASCIAVAN, is off the flan. When
I carried out my study in 1997,
only two coins out of a total of
57 belonged to obverse type C.
The number may have risen
slightly the meantime but this
continues to be one of the
rarest types within the first
series. This specimen is struck
from the same dies as Chris
Rudd List 48, no. 72.” Chris Rudd's
July catalogue.
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