Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Unfaithful legend type. Imitating Philip II of Macedon. Circa 3rd century BC. Laureate head of Zeus to right / Rider on horseback to right, holding palm branch; ΦΠΠΦ-V around, Λ and torch below horse. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 4, type 18; Lanz 365 (this coin). 13.24g, 26mm, 9h.

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 #66[obverse]).