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LOT 2575
Celtic Northeast Gaul. Coriosolites BI Stater. Circa 100-50 BC.
Stylised head to right, hair in large spiral curls, S-like ear; pearl strings flowing around / Stylised charioteer driving biga to right; below, boar to right; [pearl string flowing above]. Depeyrot, NC VIII, 186; DT 2341. Very Fine.(5.87gr, 18mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Ex Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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