Tetradrachm Audoleon Type

Features

Issuer Uncertain Eastern European Celts (Uncertain Central and Eastern European Celts)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 300 BC - 201 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 13.09 g
Diameter 23 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
191269
References Kostial# 704,
Michaela Kostial; 2003. Kelten im Osten : Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa : Sammlung Lanz (2nd edition). Verlag der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, Munich, Germany.
Göbl OTA# Pl. 32, 402/1
Robert Göbl; 1973. Ostkeltischer Typenatlas. Klinkhardt und Biermann, Brunswick, Germany.

Obverse

Laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right.

Reverse

Rider on horseback to right;

Script: Greek

Lettering: AVΔOΛEON-TOΣ

Comments

Carpathian region.

Examples of this type:

Example #1 (13.09g, 23mm, 9h; Nearly Extremely Fine, tooled obverse, with banker's mark on reverse)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #704;
◦ 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 #118[obverse]);
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 176. Sold for 420 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 3, 3 April 1970, lot 352.

Example #2 (12.79g, 25mm, 7h; Good Very Fine, with banker's mark on reverse)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #706;
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 177. Sold for 440 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 19, 24 February 1977, lot 4.

Example #3 (13.18g, 24mm, 12h; Good Very Fine, toned and scratched, with banker's mark on reverse)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #705;
◦ 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 #118[reverse]);
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 180. Sold for 460 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 3, 3 April 1970, lot 353.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (300 BC - 201 BC) 

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