Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 1 Lot: 3

CELTIC GAUL. The Osismii. Second to first century BC. 
Silver quarter unit (1.78 g).

Celticized head left, with beaded diadem forming double ogival arch above.
Man-headed horse galloping left; on back, Celticized 
rider with head looking upward, wheel before, two-arched 
bridge below. 

Cf. La Tour pl. xxi, 6508 (larger denomination, head right). Very rare.

Sold for $500

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk 
(www.harlanjberk.com).