Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Philip III Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left, holding sceptre; ΛΛΠΠIΠOΛ to right, VΠΠΛIΠ below, two monograms to left and letter under throne. Göbl, OTA pl. 44, 579/3 (obv.) and 579/9 (rev.); Lanz 898 (this coin). 16.48g, 28mm, 5h.
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 #159[reverse]).