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A bronze celtic coin of Castulo in Spain showing a winged sphinx Coin Type: Bronze AE31 of Castulo in Andalusia, Spain.
Mint and Date: Castulo, late 2nd century CE.
Size and Weight: 30mm x 31mm, 20.53g
Obverse: Diademed head right. Crescent in right field.
Reverse: KASTILO in Iberian script.
Winged sphinx advancing right, wearing apex-like helmet. Five-pointed star in right field.
Provenance: Hartland Coins , June 2009
Ref: Villaronga 335, 32; Fernando Alvarez Burgos, Hispanic Coins from its origins to the CENTURY V, 545.
BW Ref: 004 041 140
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