Central Europe, the Boii AR Hexadrachm. Nonnos, mid to late 1st century BC. Bare-headed male bust to right / Horseman, holding sword in right hand and branch in left, riding to right; NONNOS retrograde between two lines below; all within linear-arch border. Göbl, Hexadrachmen pl. 6, XIV/2 (1) not 3; Paulsen pl. 32, 762 & 763 (same dies); Lanz 84 (this coin). 16.83g, 28mm, 5h.
Very Fine; scratches to obv.; triangular test(?) punches to rev. 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);
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 28, 7 May 1984, lot 32.
Price realized | 850 GBP |
Starting price | 400 GBP |
Estimate | 500 GBP |