Celtic?

[GolddiggerGermany]

Hello,

This is my first post to this site. If anyone can help ID this coin, I would appreciate it. Found in the forest in northwestern Bavaria. Thank you in advance!

 

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[Mackaydon]

Knowing that I fail ink-blot tests (my excuse here), I'd say the 'coin' on the right depicts a young girl, wearing a dress and a bonnet, who is feeding (?) a child in a chair.
Don...

 

[bradyboy]

fishy.
imo- no wear, no patina.
what's up with the curled edges?
put in to a press and the planchet edges curled?
Brady

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Great looking coin of some foreign land - old; hammered...?
What's the metal..., gold, silver...?
Hey, WELCOME to TreasureNet forum...!

 

[unclemac]

have a look through these...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cel...VvHzQIHfw_D9gQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1536&bih=722

 

[GoldieLocks]

We don't think it is a button? I started wondering the net for vintage silver German buttons and found modern Ralph Loren ones somewhat similar. Remember there were those two piece ones that fit around the back with the single hook?

 

[smokeythecat]

I think the "thing" in the second picture is a stylized horse.

 

[unclemac]

I think the "thing" in the second picture is a stylized horse.

...which is a pretty common stater motif...

 

[Tpmetal]

reminds me of old islamic coins too kinda

 

[ecmo]

Knowing that I fail ink-blot tests (my excuse here), I'd say the 'coin' on the right depicts a young girl, wearing a dress and a bonnet, who is feeding (?) a child in a chair.
Don...

Wow I guess I need to make an appointment with the VA to get my cataract removed. I thought that it looked like a Roman soldier standing behind a stick horse

Don

 

[JamieD]

Definitely looks like a medieval hammered to me. Obverse has a crudely carved left facing bust carrying a crozier or sceptre? Style is similar to some 11th and 12th century pennies from the UK. Reverse looks like a walled town with a legend within the walls. I know some medieval coins of cologne have a similar reverse but this doesn’t look quite like any I can find so may be another mint?

 

[CRUSADER]

Definitely looks like a medieval hammered to me. Obverse has a crudely carved left facing bust carrying a crozier or sceptre? Style is similar to some 11th and 12th century pennies from the UK. Reverse looks like a walled town with a legend within the walls. I know some medieval coins of cologne have a similar reverse but this doesn’t look quite like any I can find so may be another mint?

Agreed, looks late Saxon period (in our speak).

 

[GolddiggerGermany]

So, here's an update to this coin. I appreciate all of the responses! I am about 90% sure that this is a coin from the Vandals. If you do a search for vandal coins, there are quite a few with strikingly similar patterns and styles. In the second picture you can see the face. On the first picture I am still not sure what it is, but there are other vandal coins with similar images that don't look like anything in particular when they are missing half the image, but when the entire image is still intact, then you can see that they made images of figures that I would think are mythical or from nature or something.

Plus I found out that the village 4 kilometers away from where I found this was originally a slavic settlement...the Vandals!

I am still unsure of what the first image shows, but the face is plain to see in the second picture and the style is nearly identical to other vandal coins.

I will do some more research today to try to find another example of exactly this coin, because that is something I couldn't find in my one-hour search I did yesterday.

Thanks again!

 

[CRUSADER]

So, here's an update to this coin. I appreciate all of the responses! I am about 90% sure that this is a coin from the Vandals. If you do a search for vandal coins, there are quite a few with strikingly similar patterns and styles. In the second picture you can see the face. On the first picture I am still not sure what it is, but there are other vandal coins with similar images that don't look like anything in particular when they are missing half the image, but when the entire image is still intact, then you can see that they made images of figures that I would think are mythical or from nature or something.

Plus I found out that the village 4 kilometers away from where I found this was originally a slavic settlement...the Vandals!

I am still unsure of what the first image shows, but the face is plain to see in the second picture and the style is nearly identical to other vandal coins.

I will do some more research today to try to find another example of exactly this coin, because that is something I couldn't find in my one-hour search I did yesterday.

Thanks again!

I would say the first image that is missing its top part due to a weak strike is the base of a building/castle with its U shaped entrance.

 

[GolddiggerGermany]

I would say the first image that is missing its top part due to a weak strike is the base of a building/castle with its U shaped entrance.

Yeah, I was thinking something like that is possible. I just don't know if it's upside down or not, as when it's turned 180 degrees, then the two markings on the left could be letters D and I. I've contacted a couple of numismatic societies to see if they recognize it. Crossing my fingers.

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeah, I was thinking something like that is possible. I just don't know if it's upside down or not, as when it's turned 180 degrees, then the two markings on the left could be letters D and I. I've contacted a couple of numismatic societies to see if they recognize it. Crossing my fingers.

Another observation is it looks double struck on that side & maybe the pattern under the beading (which is normally the edge of the coin which has been struck off-centre) is the top of the missing weak strike at the top