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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 13

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 4000 GBP
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Central Europe, the Boii AV Stater. Nike Type, imitating Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 2nd century BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Nike standing to right, holding wreath in extended right hand; degraded legends on either side, swastika below to right, star below to left. Cf. Paulsen pl. 1, 4 var.; Lanz 27 (this coin); otherwise apparently unpublished. 8.44g, 18m, 12h.

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 #15[obverse]).
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