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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 252

Estimate: 50 GBP
Price realized: 45 GBP
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Celts in Eastern Europe Fourrée Tetradrachm. Thasos Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / Herakles standing to left, holding club and lion's skin; HPAKΛEOYΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, M to inner left, ΘAΣIΩN below. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 46, class II, 1; Lanz 961 (this coin). 14.28g, 32mm, 12h.

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 #177[obverse]).
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