Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Artemiskopf Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Head of Artemis to right, quiver behind; all at the centre of a Macedonian shield ornamented with stars within crescents / Stylised rider on horseback to left; torque-form object above, branch(?) below. Göbl, OTA pl. 24, 278/1; Lanz 579 (this coin). 9.36g, 34mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Very 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 #102[obverse]).