Celts in Central Gaul (Sequani) AR Quinarius (12mm, 1.93g, 5h). 1st cent. BCE.
Obv: Q•DOCI, Celticized head of Roma left.
Rev: Q•DOCI / SAM•F, horse springing left.
Ref: DT 3245; LT 5405; Wüthrich 115 (this coin illustrated on Pl. V, 22).
Prov: Felix de Saulcy (1807-1880) Collection, then sold c. 1846 to Prince Karl Egon II (1796-1854) through Freiherr Franz Simon von Pfaffenhoffen (1797-1872), curator of the Princely Münzkabinett of Fürstenberg-Donaueschingen, then by descent (Cahn 81 [5 Apr 1933], 1606 [part of]); Gottlieb Wüthrich (1879-1946) Collection (Münzen & Medaillen, FPL 445 [Jun 1982], 210 [“Av. Décentré”]); old Swiss collection, formed in the 1970s (Leu WA 11 [22 Feb 2020], Lot 4); Joachim Schlüter Collection (Leu WA 20 [16 Jul 2022], 109).
Wüthrich, G. (1945), “Celtic Numismatics in Switzerland,” Numismatic Chronicle 5: 1-33, Pl. I-VII. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42661214
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