Details
LOT 2578
Celts of Eastern Europe AE 13mm. 3rd-2nd century BC.
Imitation of Maroneia, Thrace issue. Horse standing to right; monogram below / Four bunches of grapes within linear square, blundered inscription around. For prototype cf. Schönert-Geiss 723; BMC 65-70. Fine.(4.14gr, 13mm, 9h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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