Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Alexander III Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, ΘEΣ over helmet in inner left field, monogram below throne. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 43, type 573; cf. Price 1119 (ΘEΣ under throne rather than under arm) and Price 1121 (monogram in left field); Lanz 887 (this coin). 15.85g, 32mm, 12h.
Very Fine; double-struck.
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).