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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 173

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 1100 GBP
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Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Verkehrter Lorbeerkranz Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Rider on horseback to right, holding reins in left hand and palm branch behind, on which a bird perches. Castelin 1335 (same dies); cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 29, 340/2 var.; Lanz 675 (this coin). 13.21g, 23mm, 7h.

Good 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 #112[obverse]);
Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 23, 15 June 1978, lot 5.
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