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Auction XVIII  29 Sep 2019
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Lot 31

Estimate: 250 GBP
Price realized: 1200 GBP
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Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Biatec, mid to late 1st century BC. Jugate male heads ('Honos' and 'Virtus') right, one wearing laurel wreath, [the other wearing helmet] / Male rider riding galloping hippogriff to right; [BIATEC] in exergue. Paulsen pl. 30, 726 (this coin); cf. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 2, II/1 (1), 4; Lanz 64 (this coin). 16.80g, 28mm, 7h.

Good Fine. Rare.

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 published in R. Paulsen, Die Ostkeltischen Münzprägungen: Die Münzprägungen der Boier mit Berücksichtigung der borboiischen Prägungen (Vienna, 1974);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction V, 1 December 1975, lot 4;
Ex Leon Ruzicka (1866-1931) Collection (Vienna).
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