i think it is replica/imitation of a roman....someone told me, not here in the forum though could it be the case? my fotos again are not the "best", in reality the coin looks better....i cleaned it as gentle as possible
I didn't like the look of it as authentic - so replica wouldn't surprise me, however my first reaction is also celtic e.g. https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=1327&lot=196 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=186161 Do you know the weight and diameter?
Diameter: aproximatly 1,7 cm Weight, i do not have a scale, tomorrow in a jewelery shop Celtic would suprise me...
The reverse (eagle) looks like it is imitating a Roman Republican denarius of Petillius, mirror imaged, with blundered and retrograde legends (PTELLIVS is backwards; not sure about CAPITOLINVS... blundered but antegrade?): example from CNG's archives Radu's coin, cropped and joined for ease of viewing: The overall style looks unofficial/Celtic. I'm not very familiar with Celtic coins or unofficial coins. Maybe someone else here can shed some light on this. I wonder who is on the obverse. I thought the hairstyle suggested Apollo but what is the stylized trident (? quiver? other?) behind the bust? Maybe it is Dionysos?
Nice catch @TIF It's these Obulco semi's that I keep seeing when I look at the obverse: Image from Wildwinds Spain, AE Semis, 1st century BC. Obulco-Ibolka (Porcuna/Jaen) Obv: OBVL-NIC, laureate head of Apollo right Rev: Bull standing right, crescent above. Also 1st century BC ... @Radu what else can you tell us about the coin - where does it come from?
@Radu more non-expert suggestions: given the reverse is imitating a roman republican coin: a couple of articles that you might find relevant and interesting all three from Phillip Davis. http://rrimitations.ancients.info/index.html "NUMISMATIA DACIAN IMITATIONS OF ROMAN REPUBLICAN DENARI" https://www.academia.edu/29448651/Dacian_Imitations_of_Roman_Republican_Denarii A few quotes from this article below: "Massive numbers of apparently official Republican issues have been found in Romania, some 32,000 in documented hoards!" "more than have been unearthed anywhere outside Italy itself" "Crawford has described this as one of the most remarkable phenomena within the pattern of monetary circulation in antiquity" "These hoards contain a mixture of official republican coins and locally made imitations of them" The Celator, Dacian and Celtic Imitations of Republican Denarii http://community.vcoins.com/the-celator-vol-18-no-4/
The purported find site fits with a Dacian imitation... @Volodya, what do you think? I don't see one quite like this in your papers. Could it be a new Class A Geto-Dacian Group II or III?
