Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Puppenreiter Type. Carpathian

Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Puppenreiter Type. Carpathian region, circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / Stylised rider wearing crested helmet on horseback to right; zigzag before, Π below extended foreleg of horse. Göbl, OTA pl. 34, 417/3; Lanz 720 (this coin). 12.50g, 24mm, 7h.



Near Extremely 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 #122[reverse]).