Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Dreieckhals Type. Transylvania, circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Heavily stylised rider on horseback to left. Göbl, OTA pl. 28, 321/1; Lanz 664 (this coin). 9.11g, 22mm, 11h.
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 #108[obverse]);
Ex Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung, Auction 23, 7 December 1982, lot 6.