Boier 1/24 gold stater

[LuckyLuudje]

Here is my smallest and first celtic coin I bought.

it is for such a small coin so beautifull detailed that I had to add it into my collection.

This coin started my love for Celtic coins wich is growing more and more!

I think it is:

Boier, type ‘Athena Alkis’ (~200–100 BCE) AV 1/24 stater, 0. 33 g, 5 mm Obverse: head of Athena with her hair loose Reverse: Athena Alkis standing with shield and lance to the left  Ref: Paulsen 147/148

[John Conduitt]

25 minutes ago, LuckyLuudje said:

Here is my smallest and first celtic coin I bought.

it is for such a small coin so beautifull detailed that I had to add it into my collection.

This coin started my love for Celtic coins wich is growing more and more!

I think it is:

Boier, type ‘Athena Alkis’ (~200–100 BCE) AV 1/24 stater, 0. 33 g, 5 mm Obverse: head of Athena with her hair loose Reverse: Athena Alkis standing with shield and lance to the left  Ref: Paulsen 147/148

Now that is a small coin! Celtic coins come small, but 5mm is pretty amazing.

I have very little gold, but I have this quarter stater - a massive 9mm 😁

Iceni ‘Irstead Smiler’ Gold Quarter Stater, 30-10BC

Iceni tribe, Norfolk. Gold, 9mm, 1.06g. Branch projecting from latticed box divided into three, (ringed-pellet to right). Horse right with open head, beaded mane, large crescent and two rings above forming hidden smiling face, ringed-pellet behind and below (S 430).

[LuckyLuudje]

That is a very nice coin with a bronze tone!

Mine is really SMALL. it is actually a litlle smaller than 5mm!😀

[John Conduitt]

2 minutes ago, LuckyLuudje said:

That is a very nice coin with a bronze tone!

Mine is really SMALL. it is actually a litlle smaller than 5mm!😀

You need a big holder so you don't lose it 😂

Mine has that bronze tone because the British Celts liked adulterating their gold with other metals. It probably has the same amount of gold as yours...

[Salt]

On 11/6/2022 at 3:21 PM, LuckyLuudje said:

Here is my smallest and first celtic coin I bought.

it is for such a small coin so beautifull detailed that I had to add it into my collection.

This coin started my love for Celtic coins wich is growing more and more!

I think it is:

Boier, type ‘Athena Alkis’ (~200–100 BCE) AV 1/24 stater, 0. 33 g, 5 mm Obverse: head of Athena with her hair loose Reverse: Athena Alkis standing with shield and lance to the left  Ref: Paulsen 147/148

I am a little late to the party, but this is a fantastic coin.

Great strike for the type! It's rare to have such a well centered strike with the head, shield and parts of the spear visible.

[Pellinore]

These Celtic coins are really fascinating. This one I found some years ago: 

So scyphate you can drink a drop of wine out of it. A tiny coin of the Bellovaci (who lived, naturally, not far from Beauvais). 

Celtic coinage. Bellovaci (Beauvais), after 57 BC. AV starkly scyphate quarter stater. Obv. Schematized portrait to the right. Rev. Horse galloping to the left, pellet-like body, with a large pointed ear. Above and below, a star. Class I. 11 mm, 1.49 gr. Scheers, Traité 160. Scheers, Dan., 308; B.N. 7236. Elsen auction 145, nr. 221.