Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Audoleon/Vogelreiter Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Rider on horseback to right, holding palm branch; rosette before, bird flying to right behind. Göbl, OTA pl. 29, 336/2; Ziegaus, Slg. Schörghuber 672; Castelin 1333; Lanz 673 (this coin). 14.26g, 24mm, 1h.
Extremely 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 #111[reverse]);
Ex Spink & Son Ltd., Auction 20, 31 March 1982, lot 15.