375, Lot: 465. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Roman Republican. Uncertain tribe in Pannonia. After 77 BC. AR Denarius (20.5mm, 3.25 g, 5h). Imitating P. Satrienus. Helmeted head right / She-wolf standing right with paw raised; above, crescent between two stars and above wavy line; pseudo-legend in exergue. Davis Class B, Group III, OP1 (this coin). For prototype: cf. Crawford 388/1. Near VF, lightly toned, area of flat strike.

From the RBW Collection. Ex Philip Davis Collection (Gemini X, 9 January 2012), lot 688.

Davis notes about this coin: “Both sides barbarous, the retrograde reverse especially so; no obverse legend other than a few random letters; blundered, meaningless reverse legend. Said to have been part of a small hoard found in Carinthia, in Austria near the Hungarian border. The other coins in the hoard are all official Republican issues. Quite different in style and fabric from "normal" Dacian imitations, this piece may actually be Celtic.”