It's quite nice whatever it is...... It looks to me much like amn early french `potin' which was a cast coinage. there are different types from each region of France. Your one reminds me of some i've seen for the Aedui, a tribe in Northern France who allied with Julius Caesar. Mind you I could be hundreds of miles (and years) out Ian
You can try here...too many pages for me to go through. http://www.ancientimports.com/cgi-bin/category.pl?id=30&page=1
Hmm, it appears cast (the casting spru is still there) and made of bronze. Not sure, but Celtic in origin wouldn't be out of the question like Ian pointed out. B
I've since had a look at the Aedui (Eduoen) stuff and it's not quite that. I know a guy in a different forum who is up on early french cast `potins'. I'll ask if he knows this piece. It may very well be Greek in origin, though it does have a `celtic' look to it. That about sums up the typical problem you get when you only `half' remember where you've seen it before and when your reference books just refuse to open up at quite the right page. Ian
Have seen some very similsr in my copy of LaTour but non that match so the serch goes on LOL I do think though that it is Celtic in origin :smile De Orc :kewl:
Hey Orc, Hope you don't mind, I posted your pics on another board where a lot of folks 'in the know' hang out. Only one reply so far (but it's only been about an hour)... "Is it about 15 mm in diameter? It could well be from Punic Sicily with the head of Persephone on one side and the prancing horse on the other." Here's the thread I posted... http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=28885.0 It looks more Greek to me than Celtic. The Celtic coins I'm familiar with are more stylized as far as the artwork goes, but I'm so new to this that I really don't know.
Brian, I was just about to write and say that it is positively a celtic potin based on the "eye" shape where other potins were attached BUT after your last post,something jogged my mind and I looked in my collection and voila! Another one I forgot about.I have the reverse labeled as "male head in profile" but I'll bet it's really Persephone. What do you think? DeOrc..if it is the same,this is at least 300 years older than any celtic coin.Nice!
My god so I might well have 2 Carthiginian LOL Brian of course I dont mind the pic been reposted I need to find out whatit is so all help is greatfuly appreciated :smile De Orc :kewl:
Your other Carthiginian coin is from North Africa (modern day Tunisia) and this one from Carthage controlled Sicily..pretty cool.I have several Sicilian coins from this period and most actually are Greek,with goddess Athena on the obverse.
nd as you go onto the page for Punic Sicily there she is sitting there looking smug Many Many thanks guy's your help has again proven invaluble De Orc
You'll see the same look in some early Greek coins when they were casting their flans. Most of the times the flans seem to have been cleaned up better, but not always. Orc, glad that it's all figured out. Nice coin!
