Kelten? I'd help

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  1. paschka

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  5. paschka

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    It would be nice if someone could help me.
     
  6. Ryan McVay

    Ryan McVay Well-Known Member

    Best guess..
    KINGS of ELIMIOTIS. Derdas II. Circa 380 BC. Æ Dichalkon
     
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    Es it rare?
     
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  9. Curtis

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    Not Celtic, I don't think. It's actually from Kings of Thrace, Adaois. Mid 3rd century BCE.

    (You can barely make out ΑΔΑΙ on the reverse above the spearhead.)

    Notice that your reverse has the same monogram below the spearhead as on the examples linked below: HP (ligate) - Σ.

    Your obverse is hard to make out from the photos, and possibly too worn, but I would imagine it's the same boar head facing right that appears on all of these (in any case, the reverse is the same):

    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4800194
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3665643
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5064230
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5062258
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5493187
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7882151

    On ACSearch you will find additional examples (maybe 40, including legend variants) by searching for combinations of relevant terms, boar, spearhead, Adaios. There are other reverse monograms possible (probably from a mint official/"magistrate"?), but yours (HP S) seems most frequent:
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=spearhead+Adaios
    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=adaios+boar&thesaurus=1
     
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  11. Ryan McVay

    Ryan McVay Well-Known Member

    Agree. That's a better fit.
     
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