Lot 4922
Sale 78 · Important Australian & World Coins & Banknotes, The Lampard Collection, The James Atkinson Collection
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Description
Celtic, Danube Region, reduced weight issue in Oltenia and Bucuresti areas, imitation of Philip II tetradrachm, (late 3rd - 2nd century B.C.), silver tetradrachm (sic), (6.348 grams), obv. crude simplified head of Zeus to right, rev. horse to left with no remnants of rider, (cf.S.211-2, CCCBM Vol.I, type C2 group d [Saddle-head with Zeus head simplified], cf.Gobl 300.2-9, Sammlung Lanz 609-650 (similar dies). Very fine and rare.
Although of low weight for a tetradrachm, they are often described as didrachms (p.26 CCCCBM).
- Estimate
- $300
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $0