hello, i hope you can help me. i have this 2 coins for long time, and i found them in an auction catalog 10 years ago, but i dont remember, what they can be. i think, they are viking or norwegian coins, but i dont find them anywhere in the new catalogs. can you help me to indentify them? many thanks and best regards, laszlo
Top one looks like Thor and his Hammer with a swastika in the backround.....Interesting, I never say anything like these before. Traci
Unless someone can come up with a citation or attribution, my estimate is that these are fantasies, not genuine coins of the Dark Ages. People today who know nothing of history or numismatics think that ancient coins must be crude. Perhaps they saw some Celtic coins that they did not know how to view. They make these to pass them off. I could be wrong -- I have been wrong more often than I care to admit -- but I doubt that these objects are genuine. "Viking" coins (so-called) look like this: http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?search=dublin&s=0&results=100 or like this http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=655809&AucID=479&Lot=851 Aside to Ripley: Nice guess, but you do not know if the coins are oriented correctly. The Rorschach Test has some limitations... -) The bottom coin, I would rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise, making their 6 o'clock at 3 o'clock. But it would still be nothing... Something like this from medieval India might be closer, but still far from the mark. http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=434672&AucID=321&Lot=1551
I dont thnk that they are Viking but I woudnt be so hasty as to discount them entierly as real coins, some Saxon coins have a passing resemblance to those also there is nothing stopping them been from much further afield than europe. Do not forget that India and those areas produced coins from way way back LOL and some of those have a distinct celtic look to them.
They dont look like any visigoth coins I have ever seen. Certainly not what we would label as viking either.
A Taman imitation, from the area of the Ukraine. 3rd-4th century AD. Billon denarius Degraded male head right - abstract design with rays emanating from central figure; group of six pellets in field / Degraded figure of Mars carrying transverse spear and trophy; three pellets and circle flanking legs; all within wreath. http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=122471
