Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Kreuzelreiter Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Heavily stylised laureate and bearded head to right / Rider on horseback to right; large X above. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 11, 108/2 var.; Lanz 408 (this coin). 11.71g, 25mm, 10h.
Near Extremely Fine. 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 #80[reverse]);
Ex Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 12, 27 November 1978, lot 1.