Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 3. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Northeast Gaul. Uncertain tribe. ‘Athiidiacos’. Circa 45-44 BC. Æ 16mm (3.04 g, 12h). Struck in the name of A. Hirtius, imperator. AQIIDIACI, draped male bust right / A • HIR • IMP, lion standing right on ground line. D&T 675; Scheers 153, class I; Depeyrot, NC V, 164.20 (this coin); De la Tour 8086; RPC I 503a. EF, black-green patina with blue-gray overtones.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Jacquier FPL 18 (Autumn 1996), lot 43.