Hello, Javier,
I am not quite a specialist for
celtic silver coinage, but if I’m not quite wrong, it might a
West-Celtic Quinar, more exactly a so-called
„Süddeutsche Kreuzmünze“ (engl. southern
german cross coin). By the way, an very interesting and historically seen not all too frequent coin.
The extremely fine-grained facial and hairstyle representation at the
obverse, as well as the various
symbols in the four fields between the
cross beams at the
reverse, points to a Kreuzquinar "
type Dühren" (near by Heidelberg)
from really rare and wonderful beauty. The beginning of the Kreuzquinar mintages could be
around 90 BC.
But as I said above, I am not a specialist for Celtic numismatics. Some special collectors possibly could find a better answer !The coin
type of the West-Celtic Quinarii is to class in the time of the "Bellum Gallicum", the Gallic War of
Julius Caesar. “Süddeutsche Kreuzmünzen” are not only the heaviest, but also perhaps the oldest group (approx. in 90 B.C.) of those West-Celtic Quinarii, with an
area of circulation in Baden-Württemberg. However they were also found (with
reduced weight) in the
celtic metropolis of “Manching” in Bavaria.
Obviously “Süddeutsche Kreuzmünzen“ are
celtic imitations of drachms from Rhoda by the "
Volcae Tectosages" (
celtic tribe around Nîmes, South of
France), whereas the meaning of the main
reverse sign, doesn’t mean any longer a “rose”, but a
cross with different
symbols, filling the four fields around the
cross -
symbols with significances we are nowadays unable to get on with.
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