Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Biatec, mid to late 1st century BC. Jugate male heads ('Honos' and 'Virtus') right, one wearing laurel wreath, the other wearing helmet; BIA upwards before / Male rider riding galloping hippogriff to right, holding ivy stem over shoulder in right hand; BIATEC in exergue. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 3, II/2 (2), 2 (same dies); Paulsen pl. 31, 748 (same dies); Lanz 68 (this coin). 17.15g, 28mm, 9h.
Very Fine. 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 #23[reverse]);
Ex Auktionhaus Numismatica (Vienna), Auction 13, 9 November 1976, lot 8.
Price realized | 3'000 GBP |
Starting price | 400 GBP |
Estimate | 500 GBP |