452, Lot: 505. Estimate $200. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GAUL, Northwest. Osismii. Circa 100-50 BC. BI Stater (24.5mm, 6.81 g, 3h). Celticized head right; crowned with a boar, surrounded by swirling volutes terminating in human heads / Celticized horse galloping left; above, charioteer appearing as a detached head within a volute; boar and eagle below. Depeyrot,
NC VIII, 259.40 (
this coin [citing incorrect lot number]); D&T 2244. Toned, flan flaw on obverse. Good VF. Struck on a broad flan.
Ex Prof. T.R. Gurr Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 646; Freeman & Sear 2 (31 January 1996), lot 325.