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 right, head left, holding club and lion's skin; ΣΘΣΣΣI to right, >IΘΣΣT to left and ΘIΛIIΘ below. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 47, class III/A; Lanz 976 (this coin). 16.95g, 37mm, 12h.
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).