Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Verwilderten Group (Baumreiter subtype). Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, bearded head wearing reversed laurel wreath to right / Rider on horseback to left, wearing helmet with large crest, holding leafless branch or small tree; pellet below horse. Castelin 1271 (same dies); Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 12, 129/5 (obv.) and pl. 13, 140/2 var. (rev.); Lanz 423 (this coin). 13.94g, 21mm, 1h.
Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone.
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).