★ Exhibited at INC Berlin, 1997 ★

Central Europe, the Boii AV Stater. Nike Type, imitating Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 2nd century BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Nike standing to right, holding wreath in extended right hand; degraded legends on either side, trident head below to right, Λ below to left. Lanz 29 (this coin); otherwise apparently unpublished. 8.13g, 19mm, 8h.

Good Very Fine; scuff on obv. Extremely 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 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 #15[reverse]).