Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Kapostaler Kleingeld Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider wearing helmet with long crest on horseback to left; crescent before. Göbl, OTA pl. 39, 500/3 (same dies); Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 22, S100; Lanz 812 (this coin). 2.83g, 14mm, 2h.
Near Extremely Fine.
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 #138[reverse]).