Lot 4029
Celtic Coinage. Central Europe. The Boii. Gold Eighth Stater (0.83 g, 10 mm). 2nd century B.C. Crested Attic helmet right, pellets below. Reverse: Kneeling warrior facing, head right, wearing helmet, holding long sword in right hand and raising salpinx (trumpet) to mouth in left hand. Gorny & Mosch 125 (2003), lot 10 (same obverse die). Paulsen —. Castelin —. Dembski —. Extremely Fine. Of the greatest rarity: only the second example known. Probably overstruck on an eighth stater of another type.
The warrior on the other known example of this type seems almost imitative of that on the present specimen. Indeed, the realistic depiction here might be seen as highly "unceltic".
Estimated Value $5,000 - 7,000.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 151, 9 October 2006, lot 9.
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