Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 9. Closing Date: Jan 10, 
2005. CELTIC, Southern Gaul or Northern Italy. 
Uncertain tribe. Late 3rd-early 2nd century BC. 
AR Drachm (3.65 gm, 4h). Sold For $1150 


Head of Apollo right with long hair 
tied with fillet 
CALENC, cock standing right; star behind. Sambon pg. 358; McClean 182 (Cales). 

Extremely rare, possibly the third known (the other two in Vienna 
and the Fitzwilliam Museum). ($500)

Sambon and Garrucci, believed the piece to be struck by un unknown tribe 
in the Cisalpine Gaul region. Grose, though, thought the style and 
full legend of the McClean specimen Cales in Campania. While the 
reverse type is similar to Cales bronzes of the 3rd century, the obverse 
and the unusual characteristics of the lettering clearly suggest this is 
an imitative issue.

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