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15 November 2015
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Particularly well-preserved and broad Tetradrachm

Starting Price: 250 CHF
Hammer Price:  480 CHF
Lot 23

EASTERN CELTS. Late 2nd-early 1st century BC. Scyphat Tetradrachm (Silver, 35mm, 11.19 g 10). Celticized head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; S-like ornament to right; all within border of dots. Rev. Celticized horseman left; horse wearing leg irons with three pellets. Castelin, Landesmuseum Zürich 1308. Cf. CCCBM I 61-63. Göbl OTA pl. 22, 264/2. KMW 1174. Lanz 570. Rare. A beautifully toned and particularly well centered example. Struck on a broad flan. Minor striking flatness as usual, otherwise, extremely fine.


From the collection of a Swiss mathematician.

Online bidding closes: 15 Nov 2015, 18:11:30 CET Current Date & Time: 18 Apr 2024, 03:37:09 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:480 CHF by 3217 (4 bids)
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