Sale: Nomos 11, Lot: 3. Estimate CHF500.  Closing Date: Thursday, 8 October 2015.  Bidding Closed.

CELTIC, Central Europe. Helvetii. Early 1st century BC. Cast unit (Potin, 18mm, 2.48 g), Zürcher Type. Thunderbolt. Rev. Mountain goat standing left, his head turned back to right. BMC G xxxiii, S 377. SLM 905 ff. Toned and uncleaned as found. Good very fine.

From a Swiss collection.

This is the first coin which can be ascribed to Zürich: a huge hoard of them, the so-called Potinklumpen, was found in Zurich in 1890 under the old stock exchange building at Bahnhofstrasse 3. That entire hoard is now in the Landesmuseum.