MIDDLE DANUBE. Uncertain tribe. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 12.89 g, 11 h), 'Kapostal' type. Celticized laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. Celticized horseman to left, wearing crested helmet; to left, torc; below, figure-of-eight ornament. Dembski 1413. Flesche 570. Lanz 774-5. OTA 484/6 (this coin). Struck from a somewhat worn reverse die and with minor marks, otherwise, about very fine.


Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750) was a Venetian librettist and humanist who worked as poet laureate in Vienna in 1715-1729, where he also curated the imperial coin collection of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740).