Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Schnabelpferd Type. Mint in the northern Carpathian region, circa 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head to right / Heavily stylised horse to left. Göbl, OTA pl. 28, 326/1 (same dies); Kent/Mays, BMC I, pl. 5, 78 (same dies); Lanz 666 (this coin). 9.14g, 22mm, 12h.
Good 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);
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 #109[obverse]);
Ex Münzenauktions GmbH Wien 1, 4 March 1985, lot 9.