Lot 4028
Celtic Coinage. Northwestern Gaul. The Veneti. Gold Stater (8.05 g, 20 mm). 2nd century B.C. Head right, several volutes around consisting of strings of pearls, small boar standing to right atop head. Reverse: Chariot drawn right by human-headed horse, vexillum to right, winged figure below, lying to right on the ground. DT 2095. Scheers, Danicourt 221. Cf. Scheers, Seine-Maritime 430. Allen-Nash 214. About Very Fine.
For the attribution of this type to the Veneti see J.-B. Colbert de Beaulieu, Un énigme de la numismatique armoricaine, les monnaies celtes des Vénètes, Mémoires de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Bretagne 34, 1954, p. 14-15.
Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.
Ex Leu 79, 31 October 2000, lot 67; John W. Garrett II Collection (Bank Leu-Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984, lot 32).
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