Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Alexander III Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; blundered legend to right, amphora to left. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 43, type 575; Lanz 893 (this coin). 3.00g, 16mm, 6h.
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);
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 #155[reverse]).