Look closely at this superb Catti Tree gold stater of the Dobunni tribe, issued probably sometime within the first two decades of the first century AD. There’s no doubt about it: the letter C of CATTI is entirely absent from this aberrant stater. It’s not that it’s got knocked off or rubbed out, it was never engraved in the first place. This is the first example we’ve seen where the ruler’s name has been spelled ATTI (clearly an unforgivable die cutting error) and we can only wonder how the mistake managed to get past Dobunnic Quality Control. Apart from this terrible sin of omission this gold stater is a superb specimen, neatly struck on an even round flan, with no striking cracks, no unsightly scuff-marks on the plain field, and with the triple-tailed horse beautifully displayed, along with the six-spoked solar wheel below. A curious variant of the highest rarity, no others recorded. Chris Rudd January 2012 catalogue.                                                                               3.1.12