Celtic silver Drachm of the Insubres tribe
2nd century BC. 15 mm, 3.2 g.


Head of a Nymph right, wearing a triple pendant earring. 
MSSM above Celtic lion with scorpion's head. 

this was the standard coinage type of Cisalpine Gaul between the River Po and the Italian Alps. It imitates the Greek 
coinage of Messalia, though highly stylized with the lion of 
the Messalian coinage transformed into a scorpion lion.

16 mm, 2.3 g.

CCCBM S18