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Early Uninscribed issues, Quarter-Stater, British Ly [North Kent group], trace of design, rev. horse right, U-shaped ornament above, annulet behind, pellet and crescent below, 1.37g (ABC 201, this coin; BMC 371ff; cf. VA 158; S 44). Very fine and very rare £400-600

Provenance: L.R. Stack Collection, Sotheby Auction, 22-3 April 1999, lot 16; C. Rudd FPL 48, November 1999 (14).

The Stack catalogue remarks ‘This coin differs noticeably from the recorded examples in the rough form of the obverse and the virtually complete crescent ornament above the horse – its shape being quite at odds with the description given in BMC’