Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. B-reiter Type. Transylvania, circa 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Rider on horseback to left, wearing helmet with long crest terminating in a B. Göbl, OTA pl. 27, 308/4; Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 5, 75; Lanz 659 (this coin). 11.50g, 23mm, 2h.
Near Extremely 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);
Ex Émile Bourgey, 17 November 1980, lot 190.