Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Triskeles Type. Circa 3rd - 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider on horseback to right; V in front, Π beneath foreleg, triskeles below. Göbl, OTA pl. 35, 434/4 (rev. same dies); Lanz 724 (this coin). 13.17g, 24mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone.
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 #124[obverse]);
Ex Weinmeister Collection.