Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Devil, mid to late 1st century BC. Bare-headed bust of male youth right / Bear (?) right; DEVIL in exergue. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 4, IX/1, 3; Paulsen pl. 33, 782-784; Lanz 76 (this coin). 17.14g, 27mm, 1h.
Very Fine. 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 #28[obverse]).
Price realized | 4'800 GBP |
Starting price | 1'200 GBP |
Estimate | 1'500 GBP |