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MDC Monnaies de Collection

111 - GAUL - CELTIC Bellovaci. Bronze coin featuring a rooster and…
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Estimate €200
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GAUL - CELTIC Bellovaci. Bronze coin featuring a rooster and a helmeted head, undated (second third of the 1st century BC and the Gallic Wars). LT.7224 - DT.517 - Scheers 459-460; Bronze - 2.76 g - 17 mm - 1 h MP specimen no. 180 in the book “Surréelles Monnaies Gauloises”, by Samuel Gouet and Marc Petit – acquired from A. Weil, 15 January 2006, lot no. 320 (Thomasset Collection). A superb bronze specimen of this rare type, struck on a slightly scyphate, broad and oval flan. Both obverse and reverse are complete and vigorously struck, with a green patina. Superb. Although this bronze coin is logically classified within the ‘rooster group’ typological series, the style of the head, the type of flan and the engraving seem to us to be closer to certain coins featuring a helmeted head from Series 46 (see DT. 385, 386 and 386A). Whilst the helmeted bust is very similar, our bronze nevertheless differs in the absence of secondary animals in front of the profile, which is adorned only with large S-shaped motifs. This bronze coin is classified as var. 1 of Class III, featuring a cockerel without a human profile. Our specimen was struck from the same dies as the one illustrated in the *Nouvel Atlas* (DT. 517)
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About the sale A selection of coins and medals from the collection of an amateur collector from Burgundy (Part 2)
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Auction time 09/05/2026 at 9:00 AM
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