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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 240

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Philip III Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; blundered legend to right and below, monograms to left and under throne. Göbl, OTA pl. 44, 479/9 (this coin); Lanz 899 (this coin). 16.85g, 6mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone. 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 #159[obverse]);
This coin published in R. Göbl, Ostkeltischer Typenatlas (Braunschweig, 1973);
Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 5, 6 November 1970, lot 5.
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