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Title: Celtic (?) coin
Post by: aemilianus253 on October 26, 2015, 04:29:45 am

Hallo,
I'm looking for help on identifying a silver coin shown me by a friend . I had promised to help in the identification of this , a lot purchased in multiple at auction , I think German, but I was forgotten it... I can say that the diameter is similar to that of a quinary of Roman Republican and that the weight is 1.97. On obverse there is a female head of Celtic style ( ? ) and an owl (?) on the reverse side with a small crown or so... More I can not say . Thank you in advance. I apologize for the quality of the images, taken quickly with a mobile phone! Thank you in advance!

Title: Re: Celtic (?) coin
Post by: Martin B4 on November 16, 2015, 03:13:58 am

Hi aemilianus,

this coin is a quinarius 'Nauheim' type of the Hesse and Rhinelandregion in Germany.
The obverse shows a male curly head wearing two torques, the reverse a winged man called 'Vogelmännchen' - 'birdman' with a torque in his hand
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=nauheim&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=eur&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=

Kind regards