DANUBIAN CELTIC TETRADRACHM – SEEMINGLY UNPUBLISHED ALEXANDER TYPE IMITATION EX FREEMAN & SEAR 2006 – CHOICE FINE NGC GRADED COIN (Inv. 11338)

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11338. CELTS OF THE DANUBIAN REGION. Ca. 3rd–2nd CENTURY BC.
Silver Tetradrachm of Alexander type, 15.63 g, 25 mm.
Obv. Head of young Heracles right in lion skin headdress. Rev. –IOTΔNHΣΛ (in garbled letters), Zeus enthroned right, holding eagle and scepter, E in right field, H below throne.
Cf. Forrer, fig. 330, p. 172, pl. XXXIV, a specimen of similar style but with Zeus in the normal orientation; cf. Kostial 884, a tetradrachm with the obverse type reversed; Lucank –.
Ex Freeman and Sear Mail Bid 13, 8/25/2006, lot 58.
NGC graded CHOICE FINE, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, a particularly spectacular imitation, where the legend is entirely garbled, and the figure of Zeus is oriented to the right; possibly an unpublished variety.