CELTS. MIDDLE AND LOWER DANUBE. PHILIPP II. ACQUISITIONS... Lot 25

CELTS. MIDDLE AND LOWER DANUBE. PHILIPP II. ACQUISITIONS Tournament rider. Tetradrachm ø 24mm (12.66g). Obverse: Stylized head of Zeus to the right, horse striding on the bridge of the nose. Reverse: Stylized rider n. l. with whip in the left and standard in the right, at the top the surrounding inscription ARAΘΙΕΓΙΟ(?), under the horse V. Göbl, OTA 120.5 (mint); Slg. Lanz - ; Flesche 586. beautifully toned and well centered! RR! vz Provenance: Ex collection Liscic; from the Ribnjacka hoard (1941). T.Bilic - A.Falieyev, Iron Age Coinage in Southwestern Pannonia: A reassessment of the Ribnjacka hoard, NZ 127, 2021, p.12 fig.1 (this specimen!). /p>. The most detailed description of this coin type can be found in the study by Peter Kos and Ivan Mirnik, "The Ribnjacka Hoard" in Numismatic Chronicle 159, 1999, p. 298 ff., in which a large part of the pieces from this find are listed. Pl. 29, 22 - Pl. 31, 44 are stamped identically to our specimen. The inscription has been interpreted as Italic, Thracian, North Etruscan and others and read as "Sosthenes", which was the name of a Macedonian commander. In the overview, however, the reading "Arathus Egi", i.e. "Arathus, son of Egus" in Greek script, already proposed by Egger, proves to be more probable, see also B. Ziegaus in Sammlung Flesche p. 586.