Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2023 Global Showcase Auction 14-21 Aug 2023
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CELTIC. Lower Danube. AR Tetradrachm (17.52 gms), Imitating Thasos, ca. 2nd-1st Centuries B.C. NGC AU, Strike: 5/5 Surface: 3/5. Edge Bend.
cf. HGC 6, 358-9 (for prototype); OTA-Class IIIa. Obverse: Stylized head of Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath; Reverse: Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club and lion skin; four pellets in diamond pattern to outer left and inner right. A great example of this somewhat degraded imitative issue, presenting all of the details to convey the prototype, but with none of the technical precision. Bold and very lightly toned.
Estimate: $600 - $900
cf. HGC 6, 358-9 (for prototype); OTA-Class IIIa. Obverse: Stylized head of Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath; Reverse: Stylized Herakles standing right, holding club and lion skin; four pellets in diamond pattern to outer left and inner right. A great example of this somewhat degraded imitative issue, presenting all of the details to convey the prototype, but with none of the technical precision. Bold and very lightly toned.
Estimate: $600 - $900