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 14 hours ago by ColdHands

[Paddy]

I just tried Google's image search for the first time, and here are the results:

"This is a medieval "Bull and Horseman" type silver Jital coin, likely from the Kabul Shahi or Saffarid dynasties dating between 850-1000 AD.

The coin features a recumbent zebu bull on one side and a horseman holding a lance on the other.

These coins were commonly used in regions corresponding to modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India."

... and some of the visual matches: