Celtic? Coin With Horse And Square With Pellets.

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oriole Pillar of the Community Canada 5238 Posts	Posted 04/30/2025 10:53 am This weighs 2.2 grams and is 11-13 mm. It was part of an over-priced "shopping channel" type purchase (not me!) and was identified as "Bronze Danubian Celtic Coin, 1st Century BCE" but I can find nothing like this in my searches. Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34393 Posts	Posted 04/30/2025 3:33 pm Someone smarter than me will need to weigh in, but until that time, here are my impressions. First, I'm by no means an expert on Celtic issues. Second, I typically seem to see Celtic horses with finer details (e.g. segmented legs). I do see a couple mostly similar pieces on acsearch that are more likely attributed to Thracian imitations rather than Celtic imitations: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=14018694 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=14225217 However, neither of these (nor the original coin design) have those loops at the corners of the square, so I may be completely off-track here. Maybe it is a stylized top view of a fort rather than a square? "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
oriole Pillar of the Community Canada 5238 Posts	Posted 05/01/2025 6:26 pm Thanks, @Spence. This seems quite plausible given the number of coins with a horse on one side and a square type symbol on the other. Being an imitation you can't expect much precision. In the middle of the square I can sort of see the remnants of bunches of grapes. Report this Post to the Staff
louisvillekyshop CCF Advertiser United States 1303 Posts	Posted 05/04/2025 02:36 am I think Spence is probably correct about this being Celtic. Like this one below has a horse with a swooping back as yours does. And the rather large pellets. You may never find another like yours exactly as they were never known to exactly copy things and took great liberty in variations. Notice the one below says "More likely to be a Thracian imitation, instead of a Celtic imitative issue." https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=14225216 Edited by louisvillekyshop 05/04/2025 02:40 am Report this Post to the Staff
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