★ An Extremely Rare and High Grade Biatec ★

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 / Male rider riding galloping hippogriff to right; BIATEC in exergue. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 3, II/3, 1-3; Paulsen pl. 32, 752-754; Lanz 70 (this coin). 16.93g, 25mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; seldom seen type with text not within parallel lines on rev.

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 #24[obverse]).