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LOT 2854
Celtic Southwest Gaul. Tolosates Fourrée Drachm. 125-80 BC. 'À la tête négroide'' type.
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. Good Very Fine.(2.17gr, 15mm.).
Provenance
Ex cgb.fr (company's ticket included).
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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