GAUL, Northwest. Veneti. Circa 100-50 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 7.05 g, 6h). Celticized head right, hair flowing in tufts around; strings of pearls to right / Celticized biga right, charioteer devolved into creature above, holding rosette on wavy line, horse with human head; triangle to right; below, hippocamp right. Cf. Depeyrot, NC VIII, 216; cf. D&T 2306–7; cf. de la Tour 6811; Flesche –; cf. Gruel & Morin 546–81. Lightly toned, minor porosity, a few encrustations. VF. Very rare, the hippocamp with triangle is seemingly unpublished. Ex Elsen 149 (10 December 2021), lot 162.
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