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LOT 2864
Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Late 2nd-1st century BC. Imitating Thasos.
Head of youthful Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath, and with his hair partially knotted at the back and partially falling down the back of his neck / Herakles, nude but for laurel wreath and lion's skin over his left shoulder, standing to left, holding club with his right hand, monogram to inner left; blundered legend around. OTA, Class II. Very Fine.(17.24gr, 32mm, 2h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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