Catti Tree. c.AD 1-20? Gold stater. 19mm. 5.48g. Tree symbol on plain field./ Triple-tailed horse right, above: CATTI, two pellets, crescent and tiny x below forming hidden face, tiny x under head, pellet triad behind, tiny x and wheel below. ABC 2057, VA 1130, BMC 3057-60, S 384. CCI 13.0521 (this coin). Good EF, neat flan of rose gold, complete tree, bold horse, bold CATTI. Ex John Follows collection. Found near Pershore, Worcs., March 2011. RARE

Catti means ‘cat’ or ‘cats’. Ranko Matosović says: “The word for ‘cat’ in the European language is a loanword from some non-Indo-European (maybe north-African) source (cf. Nubian Kadīs ‘cat’). Cats were first domesticated in North Africa, perhaps at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. In Celtic, the intermediary may have been Latin, but this cannot be proved” (Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, Brill 2009, p.195).