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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nvb, post: 3738857, member: 99531&quot;]I won this very interesting chunk of Celtic silver at Roma&#039;s live auction today.</p><p>It&#039;s another plate coin (Lanz 540) from the Hermann Lanz collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Janiform heads are a recurring theme on ancient coins. The Greeks had some great issues from Lampsakos, Tenedos and others. The Romans of course had their two faced god Janus and the motif is all over the earlier Republican coinage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This Celtic take on a Janiform heads is at least partly inspired by the Greek coins of Philip II, but what else? Was the obverse a knock off of another Greek issue that the celator had seen?</p><p>I suppose we can only speculate but whatever it is, this is one <i>strange</i> looking piece and it had to be in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Doppelkopf Type.</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.romanumismatics.com/catalogue_images/auction/xlarge/16196.1.660_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Description</b></font></p><p>13.47g</p><p>24mm</p><p>6h</p><p><br /></p><p>Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Doppelkopf Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Janiform bearded head of Zeus / Rider on horseback to right, wearing helmet with long crest; rosette before. Göbl, OTA pl. 19, 223/1 (same dies); Kent/Mays, BMC I pl. 7, 111 (same dies); Lanz 540 (this coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Very Fine. Scarce.</p><p><br /></p><p>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)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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