At a time when dodgy Celtic coins keep popping up (like ugly boils) on the net and - dare I say it? - in quite well known auctions, it is reassuring to come across a delightful piece of Celtic gold which you know, and know beyond all doubt, is thoroughly authentic. Such a piece is this delectable gold stater of Dumnocoveros Tigirnos Seno which was possibly found around 1829 (in the Lightcliffe hoard), which made its first public appearance in 1882 when the Hemingway collection was sold by Sothebys, and which was featured by Derek Allen in 1963 in The Coins of the Coritani. That's what you call pedigree. Chris Rudd September list.       8.8.05