LOT 2841
Celtic Northeast Gaul. Veliocasses AE Unit. Circa 60-50 BC. Boar Wheel type.
Head to right with pointed nose, slitty eye and stalk lips / Boar to left with upturned snout; below, wheel. LT 7333; DT 660; BMC 9-11. Good Very Fine.(2.34gr, 15mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceEx Chris Rudd, LL56, lot 7, ref. no.13136 (dealer's ticket included).
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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Celtic Northwest Gaul. Armorica, Coriosolites BI Fraction. Circa 40-10 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Head to right / Disjointed human-headed horse to right. D-T series 380, 2374; cf. SCBC 20. 0.75gr, 13mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Very rare.
Ex Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb), Auction-Sale 90, 9 December 2010, lot 402. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Celts in Lower Danube AR Tetradrachm. Circa late 4th-3rd centuries BC. Imitations of Philip II of Macedon.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, young jockey, holding palm branch and reins, riding horse to right; beneath horse, Λ above torch; beneath foreleg, kerykeion. Dembski -; Lanz -; OTA -; CCCBM I -; Pink 11. 13.62gr, 25mm, 1h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Celtic Southwest Gaul. Tolosates Fourrée Drachm. 125-80 BC. 'À la tête négroide'' type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £56
Stylised head to left, 'negroid' type, the hair represented by a row of 's' resting on a row of Y-shaped ears / Boulet cross in the centre, formed of four cantons each adorned with a lunette: annulet in one canton, pellet in the others. LT 2986; BN 2976-3240; SCBC 75. 2.17gr, 15mm.
Good Very Fine.
Ex cgb.fr (company's ticket included). From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
