Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Alexander III Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ to right, AΛEΞANΔ to right, helmet over DA in inner left field, monogram below throne. Lukanc pl. 6, 72; Göbl, OTA pl. 43, 573/1 var.; cf. Price pl. 44, 1041 ff.; Lanz 885 (this coin). 16.90g, 37mm, 12h.

Very Fine; struck on a very broad planchet.

From the Hermann Lanz Collection; this coin published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997);
This coin exhibited by the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München at the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin; at the Berliner Bank also in 1997; also exhibited at the Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich in 2003 (exhibition #153[obverse]);
Ex Auktionhaus Numismatica (Vienna), Auction 4, 22 April 1974, lot 11.