★ Ex M&M Basel 7, 1948 ★

Central Europe, the Vindelici AV Stater. Regenbogenschüsselchen Type I A. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Ring-shaped, snake-like animal with bristled spine and 'ram's horn' to left / Six pellets within torque. Kellner, Manching pl. 44, 1107/1108; Castelin 1059; Lanz 2 (this coin). 7.49g, 17mm, 8h.

Near Mint State.

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 #1[obverse]);
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG Basel, Auction 7, 3 December 1948, lot 369.