Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Thasos Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Celticised head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / Herakles standing to left, holding club and lions skin; HPAKΛEOYΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, monogram to inner left, ΘAΣIΩN below. Göbl, OTA pl. 46; class II 4 5 (obv.); Lukanc pl. 75, 814 (obv. same die); Lanz 967 (this coin). 16.61g, 31mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine; golden cabinet tone.
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).