CNG 111, Lot: 2. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GAUL, Massalia. Circa 475-440 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.56 g, 6h). Archaic head of Apollo, wearing tainia and krobylos, left / Crab; M below. F&P OBM-1c; A. Furtwängler, “Monnaies grecques en Gaule: Nouvelles trouvailles (6eme-5eme s. av. J.-C.)” in
La monetazione dei Focei in Occidente (Rome: 2002), pl. XI, 8-9; de la Tour 511. VF, lightly toned. Rare.
From the Ealing Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 19.