Watch List notes:

CELTIC, Lower Danube. Uncertain tribe. Circa 2nd century BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 16.55 g, 7 h), imitating Philip III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] / ΦIΛIΠΠΟΥ Celticized Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; below throne, monogram; to left, two monograms. Dembski -. Flesche 740 var. (differing monograms). Lanz -. OTA 579/6. Nicely toned and struck in high relief. Two very minor old scrapes on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Harald J., Lower Austria, formed since the 1990s, ex Gorny & Mosch 208, 16 October 2012, 1021.