★ From the collection of Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750), Part II, Dorotheum, 8 June 1956, 3119 ★

MIDDLE DANUBE. Uncertain tribe. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 12.89 g, 11 h), 'Kapostal' type. Celticized laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Celticized horseman to left, wearing crested helmet; to left, torc; below, figure-of-eight ornament. Dembski 1413. Flesche 570. Lanz 774-5. OTA 484/6 ( this coin ). Struck from a somewhat worn reverse die and with minor marks, otherwise, about very fine.

From the collection of Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750), Part II, Dorotheum, 8 June 1956, 3119.

Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750) was a Venetian librettist and humanist who worked as poet laureate in Vienna in 1715-1729, where he also curated the imperial coin collection of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740).