Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Π-Type. Carpathian region, circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider wearing crested helmet on horseback to right; Π behind. Göbl, OTA pl. 33, 408/1 var.; Lanz 716 (this coin). 13.06g, 22mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine. Very 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 #120[reverse]).