Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Nonnos, mid to late 1st century BC. Youthful male bust to right, wearing wreath; all within linear-arch border / Horseman, holding sword in right hand and branch in left, riding to right; NONNOS between two lines below; all within linear-arch border. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 5, XIV/1A, 2; cf. Paulsen pl. 32, 764-766; Lanz 80 (this coin). 17.19g, 25mm, 12h.
Good 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 #30[obverse]).
Price realized | 4'600 GBP |
Starting price | 1'200 GBP |
Estimate | 1'500 GBP |