Hi all,
The next
celtic coin from my
collection a Lysimachos-head
type.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2857&pos=31This coin found near Sümeg,
Hungary (thanks the information for the seller.)
Similar coins at
Auctions: Kurpfalzerische Münzhandlung 23 (1982) Nr.5; Giessener Münzhandlung 141, (2005), Nr.22; Gemini I
Auction (Closed Jan 11-12, 2005); Hauck & Aufhäuser, Auktion 19, (21-22/3/2006), Nr.11; Künker
auction 158 (28 September 2009), LOT 24.
AR: 11.70 - 12.84gms
It's not really clear for me why
Pink put this coin on the list to
type Ostgruppe-Transylvania. Allen describes as NE-Hungary / S-Slovakia
type and I think that the latter is unlikely.
Pink deduced from
Lysimachos goldstater finds [found
hoards: valley of Strigy (Streiu) river, Hátszeg (Hateg), etc.] the found similar
obverse silver coins in Transylvania, although these
gold coins weren’t in circulation neither
celtic,
nor dacian areas, but catch from
Thrace, for example from Callatis, what was raided by
Dacians.
That is fact, several
Lysimachos obverse silver coins found in Transylvania, but this coin’s
reverse reminds me to the ostnoricer Kroisbacher mit Reiterstumpf
type (see OTA 469-6, Demski 1393), similar the powerful horse-image, the gallopping legs of
horse, and the forward-looking crested rider, although the Kroisbacher’s bolt torque pattern is not included.
This coin found at Sümeg
oppidum (if it was that, today a middleage castle), in the
North of the Balaton lake,
Hungary. A similar found at Göttweig (near Krems an der Donau,
Austria, today an Abbey).
There’s no trace the Dacian conquest in Transdanubia (
Pannonia) around 50 BC, even not sure that the
Dacians have been crossed the Danube somewhere between Dunaszekcső and Aquincum (but at Aquincum the newly settled Eravisci escaped from the
Dacians, left their villages near Pest and went to the opposite bank of the river built
oppidum – today the Citadella in Gellért
hill of Buda). The conquerors followed the valley of Danube towards the Boii capital, Bratislava, what later destroyed.
The Transdanubian found-site also can indicate that although the coin minted in Transylvania and essentially used there, but the Celt tribes (Teurisci and Anarti) could brought with them who escaped from Dacian conquerors to the
West. This may justify the
Celtic cemetery found in the upper Tisza (eg. Szaniszló and Piskolt) and several Transdanubian Iron Age cemetery finds identity, at least according to dr. John Németi, the Museum of Nagykároly (Carei,
Romania) retired historian and researcher, who is this theory supported by a number of artifacts (but not with coins).
It can not be ruled out completely that this coin went by way of trade to Transdanubia, because a single coin find does not prove almost anything on its use and origin.