Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 2. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Danube Region. Imitating Philip II of Macedon. Circa 2nd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (12.03 gm, 1h). Reiterstumpf or Kroisbach type. Diademed, beardless head right, with "boxer's" nose / Rider on horseback left, showing only his torso, hair bound with diadem and tied into a topknot; groundline in the form of a hobble. W. Kubitschek, "Ein Fund keltischer Münzen aus Kroisbach," NZ 43 (1910), pl. 5, 2 (same dies); Lanz 743; KMW 1391; CCCBM I 154; Göbl, OTA, 469. Superb EF, two small obverse die breaks. ($2000)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 121 (10 March 2003), lot 12.