★ Ex Rauch 14, 1974 ★

Central Europe, the Boii AV Stater. Muschel Type. Circa 2nd - 1st century BC. Globular, shell-shaped design; five rayed ornament above central pellet / Raised crescent with semi-circular radiating funnel design before; oval pellet to right. Paulsen pl. 18, 382; Lanz 52 (this coin). 6.48g, 15mm.

Good Very Fine; scratches to obv. 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 #21[reverse]);
Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 14, 3 May 1974, lot 11.