Central Europe, the Boii in Bohemia debased AV 1/8 Stater. Athene-Alkis Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Athena Alkis striding to left, with shield and spear; degraded legend to right. Cf. Paulsen pl. 7, 121ff; Lanz 35 (this coin). 0.42g, 8mm.
Good Fine.
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 #173[reverse]).