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Auction XVII  28 Mar 2019
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Lot 35

Estimate: 2000 GBP
Price realized: 4000 GBP
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Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Biatec, mid to late 1st century BC. Male head to right with short hair; arch and double linear border around / Male rider riding galloping hippogriff to right, holding ivy stem over shoulder in right hand; [BIATEC] in exergue. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 3 II/4, 2; Paulsen pl. 30, 711-715; Lanz 71 (this coin). 17.18g, 29mm, 8h.

Good Very Fine. Very 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 #25[obverse]);
Ex Bank Leu 25, 23 April 1980, lot 21.
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