Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Baumreiter Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, bearded head wearing reversed laurel wreath to right / Rider on horseback to left, wearing helmet with large crest terminating in crescent (?), holding leafless branch or small tree; animalistic symbol before, pellet below, remains of floral ornament visible to lower left field. Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 21, S78; Göbl, OTA pl. 12, 129/5 var.; Lanz 420 (this coin). 14.21g, 24mm, 11h.
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).