Coins // Ancient coins // Greece // Gaul
Gaul, Aulerci Eburovices, Au-Hemistater, Delestrée/Tache 2401, Allen & Nash 233, 3,09 g - a well-struck and unusually nicely centered example of great imagination and high artistic quality.
The portrait is most likely referring to Apollo which enjoyed considerably popularity among the Western Celts.
Ex. French private collection pre 2008;
Ex. Gorny & Mosch Auction 203, 2012, lot 9;
Ex. AMA coll. (Ancient Miniature Art collection).
The present example has number 38.7 in the newly published book by Henrik Bo Andersen, Apollo to Apollo: The Hunt for the Divine and Eternal Beauty (ISBN 978-87-970890-0-2)
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Estimate: 20000 DKK / 2700 EUR