Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Zangenlorbeer Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head to right / Stylised rider on horseback to left; small bird behind. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 14, 163/1 var.; cf. Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 6, 104 and Göbl, OTA pl. 16, type 175 = Dachreiter for rev.; Lanz 446 (this coin); otherwise apparently unpublished. 12.24g, 21mm, 10h.
Near Extremely Fine. Extremley 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 #86[reverse]).