Corisolites - Swan's Neck and Banner 1/4 Stater

40-10 BC. Obv: Armorican-style head right with three large hair-locks, slit eye and scroll issuing from mouth. Rev: fantastic horse right with bulbous chest, sinuous 'swan's neck', traces of lash above with X in square banner before, uncertain motif below. LT -; DT -; de Jersey -; Scheers -; cf. LT J.26; cf. DT 2343; cf. Deperyot VIII, 183, 185. Chris Rudd, List 115, number 4 (this coin"). 1.44 grams. . Property of a lady; acquired from her son; previously with TimeLine Auctions Sale 77, lot 2072; formerly Brodie Hall, Kent, UK, collection; acquired Chris Rudd (with envelope and ticket); ex Cotswold collection. Chris Rudd notes: 'This seems to be a miniature version of a de Jersey class 4 stater, possibly with a boar below and certainly with a banner before the horse. The big difference is the horse's neck which is represented by a large double scroll (or are these meant to be reins?"). Commenting on these excessively rare quarter staters Dr Philip de Jersey says: 'It is apparent that these were small-scale, extremely localised issues, with the same type rarely known from more than a couple of sites. The sites on which most have been found are predominantly ritual locations, notably fana and for that reason it is difficulty to accept Gruel and Taccoën's suggestion that the coins are 'un element indispensable à une monétarisation réelle des échanges commerciaux'. It is far more likely that the function of these coins was intimately bound up with the site itself, perhaps as a special form offering, since they do not generally appear in the contexts one would expect if they were really evidence of monetarisation. The date of these issues is almost certainly post-conquest, Gruel and Taccoën suggest 40-10 BC - and thus the coinage represents the only significant indigenous production of the post-war years' (Coinage in Iron Age Amorica, 1994, p.115)'.
Condition Report: Very fine/near extremely fine. Extremely rare; unpublished in major catalogues.