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 and lion's skin comprised of lines; ΣHOΣV to right, ZHOΣZ to left and ITNMH below, N above N in inner left field. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 46/47, class III; Lukanc pl. 117, 1312 (obv. same die); Lanz 974 (this coin). 16.39g, 35mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine; slightly bent.
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 #167[reverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 60, 11 June 1992, lot 30.