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Author Topic: Small, Celtic, Silver, Danube region, Drachm, 3rd Century BC. Try to see face  (Read 171 times)

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Offline Nathaniel N2

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I just finished cleaning a very fun coin for me. From what I understand it is a Celtic Drachm from the 3rd Century BC. The reverse is plain for me to see. I think the obverse is supposed to have a kind of face? I'm just not seeing it. Maybe someone can help me to see a face on this coin, or maybe I have the coin id completely wrong and it is actually a different kind of coin. This is an area of ancients that I haven't worked in at all so that might be the case. If you do know the angle or how the face is supposed to look, or have a resource that might help with this, please let me know!

weight 1.7 grams
diameter 14 mm
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Offline Nathaniel N2

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I still haven't gotten anywhere on this guy. Can anyone help?
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Offline Altamura

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This seems to be a Kugelwange type from the Scordisci:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=kugelwang+drach&category=1&lot=&date_from=&date_to=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=1

But I am also not able to find out which is the right orientation for the obverse  :-\.

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Altamura

Offline Nathaniel N2

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Thanks for the resource. That obverse is indeed a bugger.
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