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LOT 3052
Celts in Eastern Europe BI Tetradrachm. Circa 3rd century BC. Kugelwange Type.
Celticized, laureate and bearded head to right / Horse prancing to left; pellet-in-annulet above. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 17, 193/14 var.; Lanz 489 (this coin). Good Fine. This coin published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997).(7.42gr, 23mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the Hermann Lanz Collection.
Property of a London antiquarian.
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