Ancient coin, possibly E European, for ID help please.

[Paddy]

Amongst the copper and bronze I am sorting through, as mentioned in another thread, is this one little silver piece. Any thoughts?

About 15mm diameter at the longest, 1.5mm thick and weighs 3.1g.

[Rob]

1 hour ago, Paddy said:

Amongst the copper and bronze I am sorting through, as mentioned in another thread, is this one little silver piece. Any thoughts?

About 15mm diameter at the longest, 1.5mm thick and weighs 3.1g.

Possibly eastern European or a little further east. It should be straightforward though with the rider's hat, which is probably the best indicator of the area being distinctive in style. Say Persia or Turkey. Sorry, it's too hot and can't be ar**d at the moment, but guarantee someone will be into hat detail, given it must be a nerdy topic. 

[ColdHands]

Hi there Paddy!

Seems to be a Celtic silver quarter stater, unsure which country. Western Europe though, possibly British, Gallic, Belgian etc.

Apparently the patterns on the other side have been critiqued as being meaningless but conserved with slight variations, re: a find in Canterbury https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital BNJ/pdfs/1955_BNJ_28_32.pdf

 

You can see from this article that there is indeed a bloke wih a fedora as central motif, possibly a horned head dress in reality.

 

I thought it looked ancient near east but the design of the horse is very Celtic / Etruscan.

 

The horned head dress, chariot with chariot wheel, and spear are a recurrent deity motif. I'm no expert.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by ColdHands