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E-Sale 60  1 Aug 2019
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Lot 17

Estimate: 150 GBP
Price realized: 200 GBP
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Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Faithful legend type. Imitating Philip II of Macedon. Circa late 4th century - 3rd century BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Rider on horseback to right, holding palm branch; ΦΙΛΙΠΠ-OΥ around, thunderbolt below horse, form (possibly dolphin?) between front legs. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 4, type 10; Lanz 354 (this coin). 13.05g, 23mm, 2h.

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 could also be a Greek original from the Amphipolis mint from the period 315/4 -295/4 BC.
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