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Title: Need help maybe Celtic?
Post by: Rens D on April 16, 2021, 05:45:39 pm

Hi guys
Got a question hope someone could help me,is this a Celtic cast Potin coin? Found it on a Celtic/roman site
Diameter 16,4 cm
Weight 9,2 grams

Thanks Rens

Title: Re: Need help maybe Celtic?
Post by: SC on April 16, 2021, 07:47:12 pm

I think it is a lead shipping seal, not a coin.

Simple cast lead with a string hole through the body laterally.

SC

Title: Re: Need help maybe Celtic?
Post by: Rens D on April 16, 2021, 09:58:46 pm

Thanks Otlichnik for helping.but the hole is not trough
Thats weird
Greetings

Title: Re: Need help maybe Celtic?
Post by: Altamura on April 17, 2021, 02:55:41 am

Quote from: Rens D on April 16, 2021, 09:58:46 pm

... but the hole is not trough ...

Still filled with dirt?

Regards

Altamura

Title: Re: Need help maybe Celtic?
Post by: Gert on April 17, 2021, 08:37:26 am

Yes, that's an unstruck cast blank of a lead seal.
Regards
Gert

Title: Re: Need help maybe Celtic?
Post by: pogh_poor on April 17, 2021, 08:58:05 am

Here is an example in the Dumbarton Oaks collection.  https://www.doaks.org/resources/seals/byzantine-seals/BZS.1955.1.5120
Pogh_poor