Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Unfaithful legend type. Imitating Philip II of Macedon. Circa 3rd century BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Rider on horseback to right, holding palm branch; ΙΛ-OV around. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 4, type 14; Lanz 362 (this coin). 13.64g, 25mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
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 #65[obverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 30, 26 November 1984, lot 24.
Price realized | 460 GBP |
Starting price | 160 GBP |
Estimate | 200 GBP |