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 left; club, lion's skin and legend reduced to pellets. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 47/48, class IV; Lanz 990 (this coin). 15.76g, 32mm, 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);
Ex John Work Garrett Collection, Bank Leu AG - Numismatic Fine Arts Inc., 16 October 1984, lot 89.