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Message:: [QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4210381, member: 74834"]Here is a coin that I recently won in a CNG electronic auction, an exquisite work of art I think. This little silver coin is an object you like to touch - that is hollow at the horse side and the head side is convex - you put the reverse on the top of your finger and turn the grey and silver surfaces of the obverse to the light, all wondering about the meaning, and that snake opposite the obverse head, is it upside down? Will it crawl into the human face's remarkable cilindrical nose? And if you turn it around, you see a jolly foal galloping, you smile at it! These coins are simply medicines against bad moods. It's a funny coin, like many Celtic coins are funny. All those lively horses! [ATTACH=full]1079174[/ATTACH] Celtic coinage. Iceni (who were living in what's now Norfolk, UK). Uninscribed AR unit, quinar size. Circa 50-40 BC. Bury Diadem type ("Gallo-Belgic XD") type. Uncertain mint in the upper Yare valley. Obv. Diademed head left; snake symbol to left. Rev. Horse leaping left; pellet in ring of pellets above, pellet-in-annulets around. 15 mm, 1.47 gr, 6h. Talbot Bury A type, unlinked group, dies G/9.[/QUOTE]