Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVII 28 Mar 2019
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Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Alexander III Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Heavily stylised head to right, more resembling a ram or lion / Heavily stylised figure of Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; amphora to left. Kent/Mays BMC I pl. 12, 217 (same dies); POK pl. 28, 578; cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 43, type 577; Lukanc pl. 5, 6; Lanz 897 (this coin). 2.03g, 18mm, 12h.
Extremely 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 #158[obverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 56, 13 May 1991, lot 12.
Extremely 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 #158[obverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 56, 13 May 1991, lot 12.