Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Thasos Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Celticized head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / Herakles standing to left, holding club and lion's skin; HPAKΛEOIΣ to right, ΣΩTHPOΣ to left, ΘAΣIΩN below. Lukanc pl. 70, 750 (rev. same die - but with monogram); Göbl, OTA pl. 46, class II; Lanz 968 (this coin). 14.91g, 30mm, 12h.
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).