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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 169

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 2000 GBP
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Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Dreieckhals Type. Transylvania, circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right; torque behind / Rider on horseback to left, holding torque(?) in right hand, left hand resting on horse's back; pellet-in-annulet behind, two semicircular forms on groundline below. Göbl, OTA pl. 28, 320/1; Lanz 663 (this coin). 11.53g, 26mm, 1h.

Good Very Fine; old cabinet tone. 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 #108[obverse]);
Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 23, 15 June 1978, lot 4.
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