The Corieltauvi ‘army of the broad land’ were a large north-eastern tribe between the rivers Trent, Nene and Humber, focused primarily on Lincolnshire and extending into Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. Centres at Old Sleaford (mint-site), Dragonby, Lincoln (Lindo, ‘lake river’) and Leicester (Ratae, ‘ramparts’).

Aunt Cost Lozenge. c.AD15-40. Gold plated stater. 19mm. 5.05g. Inward-facing wreath motif with lozenge in centre, divided by single horizontal line./ Lunate horse facing left, traces of AVN above. ABC–, VA–, BMC–, S—, cf. Mossop 202. VF, toned gold surfaces, lozenge distinct, most of gold plating intact. Edge smoothed, otherwise as excavated. Fd. Croxton, Humberside, 2016. EXTREMELY RARE only ten others recorded, this is easily the best example, far superior to all others known and the heaviest.                                                                           Was £500. Now only £450

Here’s a great stater rarity at a great bargain price. If this staggeringly scarce Lozenge stater hadn’t been in the ground for 2,000 years, you’d never have known it wasn’t gold. Even today, it still looks deceptively golden. Henry Mossop DFC (1919-88) paid £300 for his tatty bronze Lozenge core and that was in the early 1980s.