Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 631. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CELTIC, Carpathian Region. Uncertain tribe. Late 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.29 g, 6h). Vogelreiter type. Laureate head of Zeus right / Horseman right, the rider bearing a palm branch upon which sits a bird. Lanz 675; Preda pl. IX, 11; CCCBM I S23; KMW 1268-70; Göbl, OTA 340; De la Tour 9727; Allen & Nash -. Good VF, toned. Rare variety of an early Philip imitation. ($500)

From the Prof. T.R. Gurr Collection.