Tetradrachm Buckelavers Type

Features

Issuer ​Cotini (Central European Gauls)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 300 BC - 101 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 8.75 g
Diameter 20 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
191264
References Kostial# 682,
Michaela Kostial; 2003. Kelten im Osten : Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa : Sammlung Lanz (2nd edition). Verlag der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, Munich, Germany.
Göbl OTA# Pl. 30, 353/12,
Robert Göbl; 1973. Ostkeltischer Typenatlas. Klinkhardt und Biermann, Brunswick, Germany.
Kostial# 681
Michaela Kostial; 2003. Kelten im Osten : Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa : Sammlung Lanz (2nd edition). Verlag der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, Munich, Germany.

Obverse

Raised convex surface

Reverse

Heavily stylised horse prancing to left; five pellets above; pellet-on-cone below, pellet before.

Comments

Examples of this type:

Example #1 (8.75g, 20mm; Good Very Fine)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #682;
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 173. Sold for 260 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 46, 28 November 1988, lot 11

Example #1 (10.12g, 20mm; Very Fine)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #681;
◦ Exhibited by the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München at the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin; at the Berliner Bank also in 1997; also exhibited at the Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich in 2003 (exhibition #113[obverse]);
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVII, 28 March 2019, lot 174. Sold for 280 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Adolph Hess AG, Auction 246, 9 November 1977, lot 68.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (300 BC - 101 BC) 

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