Silver Unit Cotswold Eagle / Corio Head Class C

Allen Type: C.

Van Arsedell ‘Corio Head Class C’. Van Arsdell Classification: Dobunnic B, Silver Coins Attributed to Corio. Van Arsdell attributes this coin to Corio. He uses style and objects in the fields to associate the silver uninscribed coins with their gold counterparts, and metallurgy and metrology to assign the uninscribed staters to rulers with inscribed coins. However, it is a hypothesis that Rudd does not follow.

Chris Rudd (ABC) ‘Cotswold Eagle’ with six-petal cross below horse, although there do not appear to be any with six petals. Rudd mentions a variant with no band of pellets-in-arcs before head ('headband'), although this could be missing due to the strike and wear (‘No-Band Cross’, Chris Rudd List 191, 9 October 2023, lot 20).

Healy Phase 2. Healy combines Class C (ABC 2018, boss on chin) and Class D (ABC 2021, cross on chin) since the dies were used together and with the same reverse dies. There is also a transitional variant with a cross on a boss. However, they can be separated:
COD 11a 'Boss, Small Head'. Eagle has small ring or ringed-pellet head. 16 known.
COD 11b ‘Boss, Big Head’. Eagle has large ringed-pellet head. 25 known.
COD 11c ‘Boss Cross, Big Head’. Boss has peripheral cross or cross on top. 20 known.
COD 11d ‘Small Head, Petals Up’. Eagle has small ringed-pellet head, flower has upward-pointing petals (not sideways). 16 known.
COD 11e ‘Big Head, Petals Up’. Eagle has large ringed-pellet head, flower has upward-pointing petals (not sideways). 20 known.