Okay I feel like a babe in the woods here, I picked up these two Celtic coins, I truly know nothing here except I liked the style of the portraits. I got turned on to this coinage from a few top 10 posts here at CT, Thank You @kazuma78 @Al Kowsky @JayAg47 @Pellinore And any other Best of lists that had Celtic coins I have forgotten. To start I got this one from Forum. 95910. Billon stater, Hooker class II, group O (final group of the series), 91; cf. Cottam ABC 70, Delestrée-Tache 2340 - 2341, Allen-Nash 220, De la Tour 6634, gVF, toned, centered on a tight flan, edge split, 6.359g, 21.4mm, 180o, Northwest Gaul mint, c. 75 - 50 B.C.; obverse Celticized head right, spiral ear, round eye, “V†stalked lips, whisk ornament before face; reverse Celticized rider on horseback right, no reigns, beads on outside of tail, abstract rider shaped like a tennis racket, small cross of four pellets right (unstruck), boar left below; from the Errett Bishop Collection. However, when I first had it in hand, I saw a drummer for the reverse, a talented fellow too. My other acquisition got here today, got it from bnumis.com in France. A/ profil casqué à gauche avec double bandeau R/ aigle de face , les ailes déployées et tenant un serpent dans son bec 3.13 g I think this is the first time I purchased the coins without reference books. Commentaire : Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnel et portrait de grand qualité ! Thank You all for sharing your best of year coins, gave me a new direction on a new collection. These two are where it starts for me. Post your Celtics. Lets see some more.
CELTIBERIA / Non-Roman Spain OSCA Spain AR silver denarius 204-154 BC. Head r beard -N behind - Horseman spear, Iberian PMAN BOLSCAN Burgos 1501 Villaronga 3 Celtiberia, Secaisa AE As, 25mm, 8.5g, 5h; 2nd to early-1st centuries BC. Obv.: Male head right flanked by dolphins. Rev.: Horseman galloping right holding spear // SECaISA in Iberian script. Reference: SNG Copenhagen 363ff
Danubian Celts: Drachm versions of the 2 below seem a little harder to find. Tets were used in trade, Drachmae were used in local commerce... Celt Imit Philip II 2nd C BCE AR Drachm ~2g Zeus Horse pellet-in-annulet above Kugelwangel type- Danube Valley - Kostial 508 OTA 204 Celtic Imitation Philip II 2nd C BCE AR Drachm ~2g Kugelwangel type- Danube Valley - pecunum auction
Not sure what this is, but it looks Celtic! Celtic Tribes. Unknown area and tribe. Æ Drachm (19x17mm, 2.26g). Obv: Outline of head with spiky hair, border of large dots. Rev: Unclear, border of large dots. Poorly struck from crude dies, nice green patina.
