Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Reiterstumpf Type. Burgenland or Western Slovakia, circa 2nd century BC. Celticised, beardless and pearl-diademed head to right / Rider on horseback to left, cloak billowing behind; pellet-in-annulet above, groundline below terminating in torque-forms. Göbl, OTA pl. 38, 469/5 var.; Lanz 744 (this coin). 12.63g, 22mm, 12h.
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 #131[reverse]).