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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 247

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 95 GBP
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Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Philip III Type. Circa 3rd - 2nd century BC. Celticised head of Herakles to right wearing lion skin headdress / Stylised Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left; vestigial legend remnant to right, 'monogram' to left. Göbl, OTA pl. 45, 591/1 (same dies); Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 28, S207 (same dies); Lukanc pl. 7, 10 (same dies); Lanz 943 (this coin). 2.56g, 17mm, 12h.

Near Very 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 #163[obverse]).
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