Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Zopfreiter Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Heavily stylised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to left / Stylised rider wearing double-crested helmet, and with long hair-braid on horseback to left; Λ-Π before, triskeles below. Göbl, OTA pl. 35, 436/3 (rev. var.); Lanz 729 (this coin). 11.99g, 27mm, 5h.
Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet 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 #125[reverse]).