Triton XVIII, Lot: 808. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Thasos. Late 2nd-1st century BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 15.68 g, 1h). Mint in the lower Danube region. Stylized head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; highly degraded form / Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club, lion skin draped over arm; legend and form highly degraded. OTA Class IV; cf. Lukanc 1347; Flesche –; Lanz –; cf. CCCBM I 230; KMW –; cf. Zürich 1369. Good VF, toned. Struck on a broad flan. Wonderful late Celtic style.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 188.