★ Exhibited at INC Berlin, 1997 ★

Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Counos, mid to late 1st century BC. Male head to right, rosette in hair; COVNOS before / Rider on horseback galloping to right; all within wreath border. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 4, VIII/1, 1; Paulsen pl. 35, 821 (same dies); Lanz 75 (this coin). 17.13g, 26mm, 2h.

Very Fine. Extremely Rare.

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 #29[reverse]).