Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Pticie Type. Circa 3rd - 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider on horseback to left. Kolníkova, Ptičie pl. 17-19, 163-186 (type VI b.); cf. Also LT pl. 48, 9832; Lanz 765 (this coin). 14.07g, 23mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. 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 #135[reverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 34, 25 November 1985, lot 22.