Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 638. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CELTIC, Middle Danube. Uncertain tribe. 2nd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (12.56 g, 12h). Kroisbach type. Diademed, beardless head right, with "boxer's nose" and pronounced jaw line / Rider on horseback left, showing only his torso, hair bound with diadem and tied into a topknot with three trailing curls. Lanz 743; CCCBM I 154; KMW 1391; Göbl,
OTA 749; De la Tour 9901; Allen & Nash -. EF, darkly toned, flat strike at high points. ($2000)