Auction Catalogue

9 April 2008

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 77

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9 April 2008

Hammer Price:
£3,500

East Celts and Balkans, Celtic coinages, The Helvetii, base gold/silver Stater, 1st century BC, Celticised laureate head of Apollo right, rev. horse prancing right, drawing chariot with driver right, lyre below, 6.77g/3h (cf. D. Allen, The Phillipus in Switzerland and the Rhine Land, SNR 53, 1974, pl.10, 75; cf. SLM 940-1 and Wien 339). Very fine; an apparently unpublished variant (£600-800)