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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3939617, member: 74834&quot;]Dear [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER], did you have an idea about coins depicting Celtic gods? Celtic coins mention rulers and depict mythical figures, animals, humans. But how to identify one as a Celtic god?</p><p>This coin is an early Celtic imitation (300 BC?) of a Macedonian coin of Philippus II, with Zeus on the obverse. But is it a Celtic god? Can you say: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranis" rel="nofollow">this is Taranis</a>?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1038462[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Eastern Celts, Lower Danube. Uncertain tribe. Early 3rd century BC. Early imitation of a Philip II tetradrachm of Amphipolis. Obv. Laureate head of Zeus t.r., behind it, a leaf. Rev. Jockey and horse riding t.r. Under it, labda over a bucranium. Under the prancing leg of the horse, an A. 24.5 mm<b>, </b>13.85 gr. Flesche -. Cf. Göbl <i>Ostkeltischer Typenatlas</i> 10 1 and 2. </p><p><br /></p><p>And this is a coin of the emperor of the Gallic world, Postumus (259-268). Was Postumus a Gaul or did he belong to a German tribe? In any case, he issued coins featuring two gods or heroic figures, Hercules Magusanus and Hercules Deusoniensis. Here is a coin with Deusoniensis.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1038466[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninianus of Postumus, 19 mm, 3.52 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well - now I&#039;d like a Celtic coin with an animal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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