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Obolos 1

8 Feburary 2015
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Starting Price: 150 CHF
Hammer Price:  230 CHF
Lot 11

GAUL, Morini. Circa 58-50 BC. Quarter stater (Gold, 10mm, 1.47 g 4), Flower Tree type. Boat with two occupants (?); pellet to left; all within border of small x-like ornaments. Rev. Central bar bisected by rooted tree; bent line below, crescent and three-pronged ornament in exergue. ABC 40. BMC -. DT 249. Flesche 226. LT 8611. S. 10. Scheers 13, pl. 5.118-119. VA 69-1. An attractive piece with a particularly nice reverse. Obverse struck off center as usual, otherwise, good very fine.


From the Cologny Collection.

“The image on the obverse has been interpreted in a number of ways: held one way it appears to be two men in a boat to left; turned upside down it seems either to be a boar to right or a rayed dolphin on stilts to left; and sideways it might just be a head. The Morini “sea people” lived between Etaples (France) and Bruges (Belgium); their oppida were probably : Tarvenna ‘bull place’ (modern Thérouanne) and Gesoriacum ‘spearman’, later Bononia ‘durable’ or ‘village’ (modern Boulogne). To identify the different types and varieties of boat type gold quarter staters see John Sills, Chris Rudd List 90, 2-” (ABC p. 29).

Online bidding closes: 8 Feb 2015, 18:05:30 CET Current Date & Time: 29 Mar 2024, 14:43:10 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:230 CHF by phoceen (5 bids)
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