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This
interesting Snettisham Multi
Pellets Type gold stater was
found “near Kings Lynn”,
Norfolk, in 1987. When we recall
that the British Museum’s
Snettisham type gold staters all
came from the 1987-89
excavations at Snettisham we
might be forgiven for wondering
if Henry Mossop’s findspot of
“near Kings Lynn” was in fact a
euphemism for a somewhat hotter
spot. Mossop cautiously ticketed
this lovely coins as “Perhaps in
the Waddon (sic) Chase series.”
His caution was well founded
because this stater has turned
out to be an Icenian type, not
Trinovantian, as previously
imagined. Glendining’s 1991
catalogue notes that there is an
“uncertain mark below tail.”
This mark seems to comprise two
small solid crescents with four
dots each side. With the aid of
a little creative visualisation
we might interpret these
crescents and dots as four
miniature hidden faces (two sad,
two glad). Regardless of their
meaning, they are distinctly
uncommon and we haven’t sent
them before on this Multi
Pellets version of the
Snettisham stater. Chris Rudd
November catalogue.
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