Tiny Triangular Triquetra Silver Coin - Celtic or Germanic?

[Gemini Alpha]

Hi Guys, felt like sharing something special today. Dont know what it is...dont even know if its really a coin but i know that the Triquetra Triangle was used by the Celtics as a symbol so i think it might be a celtic coin. That being said, its nothing like the celtic coins that i know so i would really be interested to find out more about it. It is Tiny and with tiny i mean, really tiny. Paperthin. The Finger works as a scale...its made of silver, extremely detailed and is not a fragment of something....its one piece. It was nearly impossible to detect because it was so small that the detector missed it like 50 times before. It Took 45 minutes to find it in the soil dug from the hole.I am extremely sure that very few if any of these are being found because they are so tiny. Thanks for watching! bye GA

 

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[Silver Searcher]

Interesting.....but not the style of a Triquetra Triangle, or Trefoil Knot, having said that it does look like it has been shaped fom a Celtic Silver coin...cool find

SS

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Wow, pretty cool. That would be bugger to find.

Hope you get some answers.

 

[Silver Searcher]

I just noticed you said that it was paper thin, this would rule out Celtic, could you give the dimentions in mm, some Saxon coins had a spiral, like what is on your piece.

SS

 

[iipe]

just putting mine recent Germanic triguetra coin on display, to make somekind comparisation...
aarremaanalla.com ~ Näytä viesti - triquetra coin (Thietmar Billung c.1025–35)

 

[Gemini Alpha]

Interesting.....but not the style of a Triquetra Triangle, or Trefoil Knot, having said that it does look like it has been shaped fom a Celtic Silver coin...cool find

SS

Thank you for your Input in this, Silver Searcher. I greatly appreciate it. Well i was searching for Info about this for weeks but couldnt find anything closely similar to it. Only thing i could come up with were the celtic Triangular symbols so i assumed it could be something like that. Never saw one triangular silver Coin during my Research and i hope i might be able to ID it.

Measurements are 8 Millimeters wide and about 8 tall. Thickness, well its about 1 millimeter thick at max. Its definately totally unlike the thicker and bigger Celtic coins so i totally agree it might not be celtic.

And thank you All guys for your posts! I am happy you like this "Thing" as much as i do. I was fascinated by it from the very first second. bye GA

 

[Silver Searcher]

Thank you for your Input in this, Silver Searcher. I greatly appreciate it. Well i was searching for Info about this for weeks but couldnt find anything closely similar to it. Only thing i could come up with were the celtic Triangular symbols so i assumed it could be something like that. Never saw one triangular silver Coin during my Research and i hope i might be able to ID it.

Measurements are 8 Millimeters wide and about 8 tall. Thickness, well its about 1 millimeter thick at max. Its definately totally unlike the thicker and bigger Celtic coins so i totally agree it might not be celtic.

And thank you All guys for your posts! I am happy you like this "Thing" as much as i do. I was fascinated by it from the very first second. bye GA

By your dimentions the coin might have been shaped from a saxon Sceat like the one below (second picture) I have also showed a Sceat which I found last year, that has the Triquetra Knot

SS

 

[Gemini Alpha]

just putting mine recent Germanic triguetra coin on display, to make somekind comparisation...
aarremaanalla.com ~ Näytä viesti - triquetra coin (Thietmar Billung c.1025–35)

Hi iipe, thanks for posting this! I wish i could read that. Maybe i´ll give google translator a try. I guess it does look nothing like the Coin i found, so it might really be saxon. Gotta add that the coin came out of the soil looking like this. I did not clean anything and it didnt have the typical black/grey look that many roman/celtic silver coins have when they come out of the soil. bye GA

 

[iipe]

Sorry about linking to finnish forum. We are just chitchatting about identification... Nothing so important.

Your coin is possibly pure silver, because it is so shiny. Mine have Ag 92,65%, Fe 5,39% and Au 0,73%, according to X-met 3000tx analysator...

 

[capt-zero]

Very interesting find. Something about the design kept shouting India to me, but a search yielded nothing. How did you know to keep searching that one spot over 50 times?

 

[Gemini Alpha]

Hi Capt-zero, i Have been digging almost every signal at that place over a few months.

 

[CRUSADER]

Interesting...

I suspect it's not a coin, but I have no clue what it is or was??

 

[Gunrunner61]

Amazing for sure..................................HH

 

[mical66]

my first thought was a decorative item instead of a coin since it is so small, i would think they would lose them to easy in there bags,,,lol

but it is very pretty and shiney

 

[nuggy]

Looking at the photo, I notice one side of the triangle appears slightly concave, while the other two sides are almost straight. The decorations on the piece seem complete and I don't see it as being a coin cut or similar, as there would then be a convex side and cut decorations. I judge it to be a fragment of a jewellery piece, that has broken off along the concave side by the look of it. Possibly it might be the bottom part of a pendant or earring? Just my opinion. Nuggy

 

[Gemini Alpha]

It only looks like that but if you see at it in nature, you see its not broken off. The convex part is from the digging out process because it was so tiny that i could hardly find it. I flattened it there again. Maybe this thing was "glued" or applicated some other way to something but i am pretty sure it didnt break off. Maybe it was attached to clothes or yeah maybe Jewelry but its pretty hard to figure that out now. Style looks definately very old and i would bet a lot of money this is not a piece of modern jewelry. I would be very surprised if this isnt at least 1000 years old.

 

[BuckleBoy]

That is a fantastic little find. Will be checking in to see if anyone has ID'ed it.

 

[granthansen]

I wonder if it's a piece from a larger design? I hope you get an ID. Great find!