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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4688784, member: 57495"]I find these East European and Celtic imitations pretty interesting as well, though I haven't looked into them very much.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153174[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CELTS IN EASTERN EUROPE</b></p><p>AR Tetradrachm. 13.49g, 24.9mm. Unfaithful legend type, imitating Philip II of Macedon, circa 3rd century BC. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 4, type 14 (cf. 14/4 var.); Lanz 357 (<i>this coin</i>). O: Laureate head of Zeus to right. R: Rider on horseback to right, holding palm branch; ΦΙΛΙΠ-Π• around, Λ and [torch] below horse, dolphin before.</p><p><i>Ex Hermann Lanz Collection; published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997); 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 #65[obverse]).</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153175[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CELTS IN EASTERN EUROPE</b></p><p>AR Tetradrachm. 16.92g, 25.2mm. Eastern European imitation of Amphipolis mint, circa 3rd century BC. Price B6 (p. 507). O: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. R: AΛEΞAN∆POY / BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no controls.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4688784, member: 57495"]I find these East European and Celtic imitations pretty interesting as well, though I haven't looked into them very much. [ATTACH=full]1153174[/ATTACH] [B]CELTS IN EASTERN EUROPE[/B] AR Tetradrachm. 13.49g, 24.9mm. Unfaithful legend type, imitating Philip II of Macedon, circa 3rd century BC. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 4, type 14 (cf. 14/4 var.); Lanz 357 ([I]this coin[/I]). O: Laureate head of Zeus to right. R: Rider on horseback to right, holding palm branch; ΦΙΛΙΠ-Π• around, Λ and [torch] below horse, dolphin before. [I]Ex Hermann Lanz Collection; published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997); 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 #65[obverse]).[/I] [ATTACH=full]1153175[/ATTACH] [B]CELTS IN EASTERN EUROPE[/B] AR Tetradrachm. 16.92g, 25.2mm. Eastern European imitation of Amphipolis mint, circa 3rd century BC. Price B6 (p. 507). O: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. R: AΛEΞAN∆POY / BAΣIΛEΩΣ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; no controls.[/QUOTE]
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