Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Alexander III Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; HICIΞIVΛVM(partially ligate). Price pl. 151, B2 (same dies); Lanz 879 (this coin). 16.62g, 27mm, 9h.
Very Fine; attractive old cabinet tone.
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);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 36, 21 April 1986, lot 12 (therein incorrect weight).