Celts in Eastern Europe, Hungarian Group AR Denarius. Late 1st century BC. Laureate head of Apollo or Jupiter(?) to right, C•C• behind / Juno Sospita standing right, holding shield and spear; IΓΛIICILI F to left, snake to right. For prototype cf. Crawford pl. 48, 379/1; Lanz 1022 (this coin). 3.45g, 18mm, 9h.
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 #172[reverse]).