Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Liegendem Achter Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head to left, with S shaped forms in hair / Heavily stylised 'baumreiter' on horseback to left; pellet and bar ornament in front. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 13, 143/1 var. (head to right); Lanz 432 (this coin); otherwise apparently unpublished. 13.69g, 24mm, 11h.
Extremely Fine; beautiful cabinet tone. Overstruck on Kapostal type coin.
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 #85[obverse]).