Watch List notes:

CENTRAL EUROPE, Helvetii. Early 1st century BC. Cast unit (Potin, 17mm, 2.08 g), Zürcher Type. Thunderbolt. Rev. Mountain goat standing left, his head turned back to right. BMC G xxxiii, S 377. SLM 905 ff. Toned and with a greenish-grey patina and some fine light deposits as found. Minor edge flaws, otherwise, very fine.


From a Swiss collection.

This is the first coin which can be ascribed to Zürich: a huge hoard of them, the so-called Potinklumpen, was found in Zurich in 1890 under the old stock exchange building at Bahnhofstrasse 3. The entire hoard is now in the Landesmuseum.