★ Ex Numismatik Lanz 48, 1989 ★
Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Nonnos, mid to late 1st century BC. Bareheaded male head right; all within wreath border / Horseman, holding sword in right hand and branch in left, riding to right; NONNOS between two lines below. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 6, XIV/2 (1), 3 (same dies); Paulsen pl. 32, 761; Lanz 83 (this coin). 16.90g, 25mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine. Very 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 #30[reverse]);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 48, 22 May 1989, lot 24.
Price realized | 2'600 GBP |
Starting price | 800 GBP |
Estimate | 1'000 GBP |