Celts in Eastern Europe AR Drachm. Philip III Type. Circa 3rd - 2nd century BC. Celticised head of Herakles to right wearing lion skin headdress / Stylised Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left; vestigial degraded legend to right. Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 12, 212 (same dies); cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 45, type 595; Lanz 948 (this coin). 2.44g, 17mm, 11h.
Very 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 #164[obverse]).