Tetradrachm Kapostal Type

Features

Issuer Hercuniates (Central and Eastern European Celts)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 200 BC - 1 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 13.31 g
Diameter 25 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
191438
References Kostial# 770,
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. 39 484/1,
Robert Göbl; 1973. Ostkeltischer Typenatlas. Klinkhardt und Biermann, Brunswick, Germany.
CCCBM 1# I Pl. 22 S93
Derek Allen, John Kent (editor), Melinda Mays (editor); 1987. Catalogue of the Celtic Coins in the British Museum with Supplementary Material from Other British Collections / Volume 1. Silver Coins of the East Celts and Balkan Peoples. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Celticised, laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right.

Reverse

Stylised rider wearing crested helmet on horseback to left; crescent before, horizontal figure-of-eight below.

Comments

Examples of this type:

Example #1 (13.31g, 25mm, 12h; Very Fine)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #770;
◦ 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 #136[reverse]);
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 197. Sold for 220 GBP.
◦ Auctioned by Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 35, 7 October 1985, lot 5030.

Example #2 (12.92g, 25mm, 1h; Very Fine)

© Image courtesy of Roma Numismatics Limited
◦ Ex-Hermann Lanz Collection; published in Kostial #769;
◦ Auctioned by Roma Numismatics Ltd, Auction XVII, 28 March 2019, lot 205. Estimated at 150 GBP, unsold.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (200 BC - 1 BC) 

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