Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 2. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Carpathian region. Uncertain tribe. Late 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.34 g, 3h). Imitating Thasos. Celticized head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; design greatly altered / Celticized Herakles standing facing, holding club and lion’s skin; design greatly altered. Lukanc 1888; Lanz -; CCCBM I -; KMW -; SNG Berry 527; Triton VI, lot 11 (same dies). EF, toned, a couple flat spots as usual.