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Celtic. Northwest Gaul, Brittany. Gold ring money (37.87g), 1st millenium BC. A hexagonal gold wire
curled into a ring shape. Quite heavy. Metallurgical testing shows the content to be 0.77% gold, 0.15%
silver, 0.05% copper, and 7.5% being other metals.
As made.
$3,000
Ex Patrick Finn, 1988.
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Eastern Celts, Noricum. The Apollo/ Lyre Type. Silver Tetradrachm (11.93 g). Imitations of coins of
Philip II of Macedonia (359-336 BC). Beardless head to left with hair arranged in three rows of waves.
Rev. Horse galloping to left; above and below, lyre (Leierblume). Gõbl, OTA 396/1. Lanz. coll. 703; BMC
1 148. Rare. Well centered on a thick, short flan of fine silver. Toned. Nearly Extremely Fine.
$2,500
Ex Auction Leu Numismatics, Zurich 79 (2000), #116; Ex Stack’s, June 8, 1994, #2242.
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Britain, Trinovantes and Catuvellauni. Epaticcus. Silver Unit (1.27 g), ca. AD 35-43. TAS-CIO-V, Victory
seated right, holding wreath. Rev. EPAT, boar charging right; tree branch above. Van Arsdell 581-1; SCBC
357. Attractive toning with golden-green and purplish hues. Very well struck for the type. Extremely
Fine.
$700
From the Alexander White III Collection, The New York Sale, XXXVII, 782.
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