Extremely Rare Issue

246, Lot: 157. Estimate $200. Sold for $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAUL, Northwest. Carnutes. Circa 50-30 BC. Æ (15mm, 2.99 g, 5h). Diademed head right; uncertain legend (VOIIC?) inverted below / Celticized horse standing right; cross with pellets in quarters above, pentagram before, O below. D&T 2616; Depeyrot, NC V, 46.6 (this coin); CCCBM III -. Good VF, dark green patina, obverse a little off center. Extremely rare, one of only six recorded by Depeyrot.

Ex Dr. William F. Blank Collection; Rudd 64 (2002), no. 7; Elsen 68 (14 December 2001), lot 39.