★ Ex Münzen & Medaillen 7, 1948 ★

Central Europe, the Boii AV 1/3 Stater. Athene-Alkis-Reihe Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Heavily simplified head of Athena to right / Celticised figure of Athena Alkis striding to left, with shield and spear. Paulsen pl. 8, 176-7; Lanz 41 (this coin). 2.68g, 10mm.

Good 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 #19[obverse]);
Ex Münzen & Medaillen AG Basel, Auction 7, 3 December 1948, lot 365.