Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Katzenreiter Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider wearing crested helmet to left; quadruped animal (cat?) before. Preda, MGD pl. 10, 9 (same dies) & 10 (same dies); cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 36, 441A/1; Lanz 732 (this coin). 13.43g, 26mm, 10h.
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 #126[reverse]).