Triton XXII, Lot: 439. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CENTRAL EUROPE, Boii. Busumarus. Mid-late 1st century BC. AR Hexadrachm (30mm, 17.06 g, 9h). Mint in soutwestern Slovakia. Bare bust of male left, hair tied in knot; branch to left / Winged centaur standing left, head turned right; BVSV below. Göbl,
Hex., IV-1/28; Paulsen 785–9; CCCBM III 249; Flesche 491; KMW 627–9; Lanz 72–3; Zurich 1161 (all from the same dies). VF, deep cabinet tone, traces of find patina. Very rare, only one in CoinArchives.
Lot includes an old cabinet ticket.