Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Monsichelreiter Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider on horseback to left; crescent behind, pellet-in-annulet below. Castelin 1339 (same obv. die); Göbl, OTA pl. 36, 442/2; Dessewffy pl. 37, 876; Lanz 733 (this coin). 12.72g, 22mm, 7h.
Very Fine. Extremely 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 #127[reverse]).