Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Thasos Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Celticised head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / Stylised Herakles standing facing; legends reduced to pellets around. Lukanc pl. 149, 1692-1694 (same dies) and pl. 158. 1802 (same dies); cf. Castelin 1371 var.; Lanz 993 (this coin). 15.62g, 29mm, 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 #168[reverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 60, 11 June 1992, lot 32.