Attractive Biatec Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 23. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Central Europe. Boii. Biatec. Mid 1st century AD. AR Tetradrachm (17.04 g, 6h). Biatec series. Jugate male heads right, the left with laurel wreath; ivy leaf [before and] below / Horseman riding right, [holding branch]; leaf before [and below]. Paulsen 723; Lanz 62; CCCBM I 242; KMW 600 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, with a hint of iridescence, minor die wear. Overstruck on uncertain type.

Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 4.