Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 27. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Eastern Europe. Imitations of Thasos. Circa 90/80-1 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.21 g, 12h). Wreathed head of young Dionysos right, style devolved / Herakles standing facing, head left, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; wavy line to outer left, style devolved. Lukanc Imit. Group V, 1611 (same dies); OTA Class IV; Lanz -; CCCBM I -; KMW -. VF, toned, peck marks in fields, a little flat on high points on obverse.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection.