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My East Celtic coins
berserker:
Hi all,
I started a new album to show my East Celtic coins, mainly what found in Carpathian basin.
At first the Kapostaler type, what is one of the most know found in Hungary.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=0
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=1
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=2
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=3
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=4
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=5
Documented found
HUNGARY: Kaposvár, Nagyberki-Szalacskahegy, Hetes (Somogy County); Gerjen, Kesző-Hidegkút, Regöly, Simontornya, Szárazd (128pieces), Szekszárd, Tamási (Tolna County); Dunaszekcső (found 900 pieces AE!), Pécs-Jakab Hill (Baranya County); Moson; Sopron-Várhegy; Veszprém, Nagyláng (Fejér County); Esztergom; Páhi-Puszta (Pest County); CROATIA: Verőce – Dalj (Bácska); ROMANIA: Brassó (Transylvania); AUSTRIA: Oberleiserberg; GERMANY: Raudnizt (at Elbe river).
AR: 10.12-14.50gms; AE: 7.57-9.67gms
Most of these villages Celtic name are not known, so the today name (or sometimes the later Roman city name) are mentioned in the historical works.
berserker:
Background to Kapostaler coins
The Kapos (Regöly) type, which received its name from the valley of the Kapos River north of the town of Pécs in southwestern Hungary, where most coins of this type have been found. Tetradrachms and drachms are known from this group, and the discovery of coin dies in the ruins of a foundry and mint in the settlement of Szalacska nearby Kaposvár indicate that at least silver drachms of this type were minted in Szalacska in the 1st century BC. E. Gohl assigned the foundry or mint in absolute chronological terms to the middle of the 1st century BC on the basis of archaeological (tools, jewellery) and numismatic material. Later coins of the Kapos (Regöly) type in the size of tetradrachms and drachms, which were otherwise not discovered in the area of the mint in Szalacska, were minted exclusively from copper. The silver and copper coinage of the Kapos (Regöly) type were limited in monetary circulation primarily to the central Danubian region, north and east of the town of Pécs, and belonged to what has been termed the eastern Celtic minting group. D. F. Allen was inclined to the opinion that the minting of such coins could be attributed to the tribe of the Andizetes, who he incorrectly assumed had been settled in the region under consideration, but he later attributed the minting of this coinage to the Hercuniates.
The minting of silver coins of the Kapos (Regöly) type belongs to the later phase of eastern Celtic minting, and in an absolute chronology, R. Göbl placed the beginning of minting of this coin group in the period after 53 BC, and K. Biró-Sey placed it as late as just before the Roman conquest of Pannonia. D. F. Allen supported a fairly early beginning of minting silver coins of this group, while M. Torbágy placed it in the last third of the 2nd century BC. At first coins of this type were minted from high quality silver, while later the quality of the metal declined, indicating that they had a lengthy existence. A. Kerényi also decided for a lengthy minting of coins of this type because of the minting in two metals. The early silver tetradrachmas and drachmas of this type were minted at the same time, with the early tetradrachmas weighing between 12 and 14 g. Their later phase was characterized by an exceptionally poor quality of the metal from which they were minted, in most cases almost entirely copper, and the weight of these bronze coins was on average between 8 and 9 g. The large bronze coins have the same diameter as the tetradrachmas (22-23 mm), and bronze coins were also minted in the size of a drachma. M. Torbágy assigned the minting of bronze coins of the Kapos (Regöly) type to the second half of the 1st century BC. The minting of stylistically coarse coins from poor quality metal was placed by D. F. Allen at the end of the 1st cent. BC, as A. Kerényi had also suggested previously. R. Göbl, to the contrary, set forth a thesis that the coins of the Kapos (Regöly) type had been minted yet further to ca. 21 BC. An entirely new absolute chronology of minting bronze coins of the Kapos (Regöly) type was suggested by K. Biró-Sey, who explained the transition from silver to bronze minting of the Kapos (Regöly) type coins with the fact that coins with the poorer quality metal only began to be minted after the Roman conquest of Pannonia and that they were used exclusively for local purposes. The fact that bronze coins were not documented in the framework of the mint or foundry activities at Szalacska would perhaps speak in favor of their very late minting. Nonetheless, the thesis about the minting of bronze coins of this type as late as the Roman conquest of Pannonia (which can be placed in 12-9 BC) does not seem likely. The analogous minting of their own coinage among the tribe of the Eravisci in the vicinity of Budapest (again primarily for local use), immediately prior to the Roman occupation shows that the coins then minted in this area were created under the decisive influence of Roman coinage and that they were also minted according to the standard of the Roman denarius. The minting of their own coinage by Celtic tribes according to a Greek monetary standard (modelled on the tetradrachm) after the Roman conquest of Pannonia would have undoubtedly required some kind of Roman agreement, and is thus highly unlikely. Also, the minting of coins of the Syrmian type in bronze (phase C) among the more easterly Scordisci, which is similar to the example of the Kapos (Regöly) type coins at least in terms of the continuation of minting coins of the same type as in silver (phases A and B), is assigned chronologically to the mid 1st century BC. Both kinds of Celtic coinage represented in the find could theoretically have circulated monetarily for decades after the Roman occupation of Pannonia.
Source
Peter Kos: A find of Celtic coins from the area of Balina Glavica (Sinotion) in Dalmatia
Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu. 3. serija (0350-7165) 35 (2002)
(Mentioned Hungarian persons: Krisztina Bíró-Sey, Melinda Torbágy, András Kerényi are archaeologists, and Ede Gohl was a numismatist, the editor of Dessewffy catalog)
berserker:
KAPOSTALER KLEINGELD type
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=6
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=7
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=8
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=9
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=10
Documented found
HUNGARY: Páhi-Puszta(110pieces)(Pest county);Soponya-Nagyláng (Fejér county); Őskü, Porva, Siófok (Veszprém county); Nagyberki-Szalacskahegy (Somogy county); Dombóvár, Keszö-Hidegkút, Szárazd, Szekszárd (Tolna county); Győr; Esztergom; CROATIA: Kis-Kőszeg (roman Bacincum), Nagy-Bodolya (old Eszék-Baranya county), Stari Jankovci (old Gömör county), SLOVAKIA: Vöröskő (Cervena Skala); CZECH REP.: Oppidum of Stradonice;
AR and AE: 2.28-7.00 (!) gms
There’s an interesting found, what wasn’t in celtic area, but in Yazig-Sarmatian territory between Danube and Tisza river. This is the Hungarian Grand Plan, where was a lot of marshland because of the two river catchment area, and celts not lived so unstable lands. Páhi-puszta (puszta=grazing ground) was near the important trade road, - what connected the roman Intercisa and a Yazig village near Csongrád (at the Tisza river) – where lived Attila and his huns 500 years later. Páhi-puszta found Kapostal coins, several bronze tetradrachms and drachms. This hoard probably was the price the bought horse(s), what celts bought from Yaziges, or just simple a commercial traveller dug these coins in that area.
Most of these villages Celtic name are not known, so the today name (or sometimes the later Roman city name) are mentioned in the historical works.
nikos k:
Very interesting style..
Especially first example has got a wild beauty.
berserker:
Thank you Nikos.
My next celtic coin is a Grurgjevac (or Djurdevac) type.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=11
Documented Hungary found 5 pieces: Belovar (old Belovar-Körös County); Vác (Pest County); Szalacska (Somogy County); Szárazd (Tolna County); Velemszentvid (Vas County)
AR fourree: 5.95-7.67gms; AR: 8.02-12.52gms
Most of these villages Celtic name are not known, so the today name (or sometimes the later Roman city name) are mentioned in the historical works.
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