Watch List notes:

EASTERN CELTS. Late 2nd-early 1st century BC. Scyphat Tetradrachm (Silver, 35mm, 11.19 g 10). Celticized head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; S-like ornament to right; all within border of dots. Rev. Celticized horseman left; horse wearing leg irons with three pellets. Castelin, Landesmuseum Zürich 1308. Cf. CCCBM I 61-63. Göbl OTA pl. 22, 264/2. KMW 1174. Lanz 570. Rare. A beautifully toned and particularly well centered example. Struck on a broad flan. Minor striking flatness as usual, otherwise, extremely fine.


From the collection of a Swiss mathematician.