Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Alexander III Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Celticised head of Herakles to right / Stylised figure of Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left; N to left, IΛ below throne. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 43, type 577 var. (rev.); Lanz 895 (this coin). 3.91g, 18mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
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 #156[obverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 64, 7 June 1993, lot 31.