185, Lot: 1. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Southern Gaul. Tolostates. Circa 100-44 BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 2.93 g). Female head left, wearing necklace; before, two dolphins, vis-à-vis / Long cross with cresents in each quarter, in imitation of rose; ax, elliptical loop, and grain ears in each quarter. CCCBM II 56-62; De la Tour 3132. VF.

The "monnaies à la croix" originated in Spanish copies of the rose drachms of the Greek colony of Rhodes of the 3rd century BC. By the end of the 2nd century, crude drachms were being struck by many of the Celtic tribes in southern Gaul, and the croix had become the standard currency across the region.