Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Zigzackgruppe Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to left / Stylised rider on horseback to left; ΠΛΛΛ above, pellet-in-square before, pellet-in-annulet behind. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 37, 459/4; Lanz 738 (this coin). 11.03g, 27mm, 6h.
Near Extremely 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 #128[reverse]);
Ex Berliner Münzkabinett, Auction 11, 29 May 1980, lot 4.