@Deacon Ray......Great looking coin!.....It certainly is an area of bizarre (Imaginative) Portraits...Here's my snub nosed example..... Castulo, Spain AE As. 30 mm, 22g. 76-45 BC. ISCER SACAL, youthful male head right. CAST SOCED, sphinx right. Burgos (2008) 709; Ripolles 905; Villaronga 14.
Very cool that you have a female version, @Deacon Ray ! Nice capture. I have a few from Iberia, and always enjoy their Celtic influence in the art of the coins. IBERIA. Castulo. Quarter Unit (Late 2nd century BC). Obv: Diademed male head right. Rev: KAŚTILO (in Iberian). Boar standing right; star above. ACIP 2152; SNG BM Spain 1354-7. Condition: Good very fine. Weight: 3.27 g. Diameter: 16 mm Ex: Numismatik Naumann
PhotoShop for the coin (dealer’s image because the actual coin is still in the mail) and InDesign for the composite image. The shadows near my thumb are not quite right. I’m holding a 33mm AA chip which happens to be very close to the size of the AE32 Iberian coin. Your Image Stack looks great by the way.
@Deacon Ray your coin looks to be from Obulco a city in Hispania Baetica, partially excavated in the southern part of the present-day village of Porcuna, to which it gives its name, approximately 40 mīlle passūs east of Corduba. Celtic. Iberian Æ Obulco Date: 220-20 BC Obverse: Female bust right wheat ear in front crescent below A similar coin. Museo Arqueológico de Porcuna Jaén Ciudad ibero romana de Obulco expolio - Bing video
Nice coin! Yes, the obverse has a very modernist style, very similar to a picture of R.K. Yadav hanging in my living room: Here's my only Spanish AE, an AE 33 of Castulo. Spain, 200-150 BC Castulo Æ As Diademed male head right / Sphinx with pointed helmet walking right; star and Iberian 'KO' to right, Iberian ["KASTILO"] in exergue. ACIP 2113; CNH 9. 32.77g, 34mm, 12h. From Roma E-Sale 61, lot 67. Very Fine. Rare early issue and quite attractive. A massive flan. Ex Javier Paris Collection.
Nice one, Deacon Ray. Only your second ancient for 2021! I admire your restraint. Here is an Osca: Spain, Bolskan (Osca) Æ 22 (c. 150-100 B.C.) Bearded male head right; dolphin behind / Warrior on horseback right, holding spear; [star above] Iberian 'OLSKA[N]' below. CNH 8; SNG BM Spain 734; SNG Copenhagen 325. (?) (5.31 grams / 22 mm) Rather later, I just got this one recently, a semis for Augustus. Still has a bit of a Picasso vibe to it, perhaps: Augustus Semis (Æ 22) (c. 12 B.C.) Ilici, Spain Q Papirius Car and Q Terentius Montanus, duoviri DIVI F AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / Q PAPIR · CAR· Q TER(E) · MON[T II VIR Q], tetrastyle temple, IVNONI in architrave, [C I] I A in columns. RPC I, 192; SNG Cop 14. (5.37 grams / 22 x 20 mm)
Celtiberian. I don't have enough of them. Obulco After 150 BC AE As Obvs: OBVLCO, Female head right. Revs: Iberic inscription Tikueki & Botilkes between plow and wheat ear. 23x29mm, 10.34g CNH 347.38
Brilliant OP, @Deacon Ray. Along with everyone else's terrific contributions, @Alegandron kind of nailed it, about the still very evident Celtic presence that you can see in the whole series. @robinjojo, I'm really needing your association with Celtiberian profiles with that fantastic picture in your living room. (Got to Wiki R.K. Yadav. --And thanks to @David@PCC for a fantastic example, and for helping out with the spellng of that!) The profile evokes Picasso, vaguely middle-period (maybe 1920's - '30s) --and who knows how much he was drawing from Celtiberian precedent when he was doing that? Especially having progressed from a late version of neo-Classicism through the earlier phases of Cubism, he was revisiting what you might call visual lyricism, but from a clearly pre- or para-Classical esthetic. I think that's part of what you get from all sorts of non-Classical, even non-Western traditions. But the --sorry, stuck here-- 'visual lyricism' is unmistakable. For instance, here. https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-before-mirror.jsp
