Central Europe, the Boii AV 1/3 Stater. Athene-Alkis Type. Circa 2nd century BC. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Athena Alkis striding to left, with shield and spear; degraded legend to right, EZ(retrograde) below to left. Paulsen pl. 4, 80 (same dies); Lanz 32 (this coin). 2.75g, 12mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine; worn obv. die; scrape to rev. 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 #16[reverse]).