Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Beardless Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and beardless head right / Stylised rider on horseback to right; four small pellets before, globe under horse. Göbl, OTA pl. 7, 56/1; Preda, MGD pl. 13, 11 and 12 var.; Lanz 382 (this coin). 12.84g, 25mm, 6h.
Very Fine. 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 #69[reverse]);
Ex Kress, Auction 186, 25 October 1983, lot 372.
Price realized | 1'900 GBP |
Starting price | 240 GBP |
Estimate | 300 GBP |