Danbue Celts Imitating Philip III - Fear The Blob!

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Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 12/03/2017 12:50 am I'm not specifically planning to keep this one, but this board could always use more Celtic coins! Danbue region, uncertain Celtic tribe AR Tetradrachm (15.17g) Indistinct blob Zeus seated, holing eagle, pseudo-monor am before. Garbled "ILILPPPIIIIII..." behind My attribution here is of course coming from the blob obverse; that seems to be the calling card of this series. I honestly don't know whether they kept using the same die for literal decades until it was beyond worn out, or what the deal is. I did not expect the relief, though! Again, feel free to chip in with anything you have to offer, coin or factoid! Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 12/03/2017 01:53 am Nice reverse detail, better than must of what I've seen. One of these days I will have to get one of these. Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 12/03/2017 04:49 am Nice coin.. Dont know much about these coins but I think the blob form is supposed to represent the stylised head of Herakles..something like this.. Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 12/04/2017 1:05 pm Correct, the coin is imitating Philip III, who in turn used the designs of Alexander the Great; Lionskin-clad Heracles and seated Zeus. What puzzles me is that the Celts had a tendency to re-engrave new dies with rapidly increasing levels of stylization, until the coin was just dots and dashes... just using an uneven blob is not something typically done by anyone past about 600 BC. The representation of Zeus is crude, but at least indicates that their celatores were competent enough to at least attempt a new obverse die. It is indeed a puzzle. Report this Post to the Staff
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