Extremely Rare Kerunnos Bronze

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 75. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Northwest Gaul. Lexovii. Circa 100-50 BC. Æ 15mm (3.46 g, 8h). Facing bust of Kerunnos, hair in form of bull’s horns, wearing neck torque / Horse right, surmounted by facing bust of Kerunnos (as on obverse); wheel of six spokes below. D&T 2498; Depeyrot, NC VIII, 58; CCCBM III -. VF, dark green patina, minor roughness. Extremely rare, only four examples recorded by Depeyrot.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection. Ex Chris Rudd Collection (Rudd 56 [2001]), no. 7; Burgan 37 (18 October 1994), lot 111.