Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Audoleon monogram Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider on horseback to right; 'zigzag' pattern behind and below horse's foreleg; lyre-form ornament before, Audoleon monogram below horse. Göbl, OTA pl. 35, 429/1; Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 8, 127; Lanz 723 (this coin). 13.69g, 24mm, 6h.
Very Fine; hairlines under tone. 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 #123[reverse]).