Hey guys Please post your celtic coins if you'd like. I am very interested in them and would enjoy to see what choices people made. I am eyeing a low grade celtic coin from a european seller at the moment (the one pictured here)...
My favorite is a bear chomping on a snake. I bought it to give to a Baylor student, but never sent it. I sent two more modern bear coins. I also have one listed as a lower Danube Celtic tetradrachm by the seller. I can not vouch for the attribution, but I thought it was interesting and large for a silver coin.
I feel a draw towards Celtic coinage, but only have a couple. I've shown them many times, but I am always looking for an excuse to show my coins. LOWER DANUBE CELTS AR Drachm OBVERSE: Stylized head of Herakles with wild hair, right REVERSE: Stylized Zeus seated left holding an eagle, kantharus to left Struck by the Lower Danube Celts, 2d-1st Century BC 2.9g, 20mm, CCCBM I 217, Kostial 896 ex JAZ Numismatics EASTERN CELTS, DACHREITER TYPE AR Drachm OBVERSE: Celticized head of Zeus right REVERSE: Celticized horseman riding left; wheel of four spokes above Struck by the Skordoski in Syrmia, 2d Century BC 1.87g, 14mm OTA 188/2-3 NORTHEAST GAUL, REMI AE Potin Unit OBVERSE: Figure seated facing with legs crossed holding torque and plait of hair REVERSE: Boar standing right with snake-like ornament above, star below Struck at unknown Mint, 100-50 BC 21mm, 6.12g D&T220 // Depeyrot NC VII, 33 // BMC447-9 // DeLaTour8145
Wish I had more. Currently only have these Celtiberians. Bascunes After 150 BC AR Denarius Obvs: Bearded male right. Revs: Rider on horse holding sword. 17x18mm, 4.02g Obulco After 150 BC AE As Obvs: OBVLCO, Female head right. Revs: Iberic inscription Tikueki & Botilkes between plow and wheat ear. 23x29mm, 10.34g Osca After 204 BC AR Drachm Obvs: Male head right, Ж٣ behind. Revs: Horseman holding spear right, ЖΓMA٢ below. 17mm, 3.63g
Great coins, gang ... => here are a couple of my Celtic examples ... Celtic Gaul, Senones AE18, Cast Potin Celtic Tribes of Gaul, Coriosolite Class IIB, Billon Stater
I have one like that, too. It imitates the tetradrachms of Philip II of Macedon that were in use as general trade coins. Your coin still vaguely shows the head of Heracles on the obverse. Here are some of my favorites: A potin stater of the Suessiones, a French tribe that gave its name to the city of Soissons. Grotesque head and grotesque milliped on this bronze coin of the Bellovaci (who lived in the Vallée de l’Oise). It's called 'avec la lion', proving the power of fantasy of the Celts. And this is a low-gold coin of the Pictones (that gave their name to Poitiers), a strange orange-coppery coin that is heavy in hand (20 mm, 6.23 gr). On the obverse the head of the god Ogimus, on the reverse a rider on a human-faced horse. Under it, a hand reaches up.
(in imitation of) MYSIA, Parion. 13mm 1.45g Obv: Gorgoneion, arc of dots representing tiara, crescents representing snakes Rev: Cow licking flank; crescents above imitating inscription; circle below in imitation of theta Purchased from Slavey Petrov, the notorious forger! I believe it to be ancient and not one of Slavey's creations.
Celtic, Lower Danube, Uncertain tribe. 2nd century B.C. AR Drachm Imitating Philip III of Macedon O: Head of Herakles wearing lions skin headdress knotted at throat, right. R: Zeus enthroned holding eagle. 19mm 3.61g Lanz 939; CCCBM I 203-4
Someone once stated that celtic coins are small round works of surreal primal art of a primal people..that always stuck with me. By some of the beautiful examples I can see what they meant. Thanks for showing those amazing coins.
Celtic Britannia The Durotriges (58 B.C.-43 A.D.) Cranborne Chase Type AR Stater, 19mm x 5.95 grams Obv.: Wreath, cloak and crescents Rev.: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, twelve pellets above Ref.: SCBC 366, SGCV 172 Ex. Estate of an English Numismatist
There are several Celtic coins on my wish list. So far I only have three. Favorite: CELTIC, Central Europe (Rhineland). "Dancing Mannikin" type 65 BCE - CE 1 AR Quinarius, 13 mm, 1.62 gm Obv: dancing mannikin right, head turned left, holding snake in right hand, torque in left hand. Rev: horse standing right, head turned left; around, zig zag border. Ref: SLM 1118. Dembski 73, 396. (I'll have to take the seller's word on that for now. If any of you have a Celtic reference and find this inaccurate, please let me know.) https://www.cointalk.com/threads/snakebit-celtic-quinarius-little-dancing-man.256052/ CELTIC BRITAIN, Dobunni tribe. Eisu. Circa CE 20-43 AR unit. 1.1 gm. 13 mm Obv: Stylized head right, pellet triads for hair, pellet in ring for eye Rev: Triple tailed annulet horse Ref: S. 382. ABC 2081 Celtic potin, Leuci tribe 80-20 BC AE18, 3.4 gm Obv: bald warrior head left Rev: boar standing left, three half-circles below Ref: BN 9100-9104
