412, Lot: 974. Estimate $100. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CELTIC, North-Eastern series ('Corieltauvi'). Uninscribed. Circa 50 BC - AD 30. AR Unit (13.5mm, 1.38 g, 1h). Proto Boar (Corieltauvian B) type. Boar standing right, with bristles on back and pincer-feet; ringed-pellet to left, solar anemone above, four-armed tetraskeles to right, crescent below / Celticized horse left; pellets and ringed-pellets in beaded circle around. Leins 1b; Van Arsdell 855-3; ABC 1779; SCBC 396. VF, toned, minor porosity.
From the Dr. Allan Smith Collection.