Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Thasos Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Celticised head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / Stylised Herakles standing to left, holding club reduced to pellets and lion's skin; IΩVΛEO to right, ΩZHDOΛ to left and Λ•ΣIΩM below, M in inner left field. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 46/47, class III; Lanz 972 (this coin). 16.60g, 30mm, 11h.
Very Fine; flan crack at 9h/4h.
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);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 52, 14 May 1990, lot 59.