Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Apollokopf-Dickschrötling Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Facing, laureate head of Apollo / Stylised rider on horseback to right; wreath above, branch below. Göbl, OTA pl. 18, 226/3 or 227/2 (obv.) and 227/1 (rev. same die); Lanz 527 (this coin). 12.84g, 20mm, 3h.
Very Fine; beautiful 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);
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 #94[reverse]);
Ex Schulten & Co., Auction 12, 2 November 1983, lot 3.