Dancing man

A type of ancient coin is called a dancing man .

It is a quinar made of silver , which is between 60 and 1 BC. In the series I (approx. 60-45), II (approx. 45-30), III (approx. 30-15) and IV (approx. 15-1) was minted as a coin denomination according to the Western Celtic-Gallic standard. In the Latène period, the Celtic culture lay between Paris, Brussels, Prague and even Vienna. The picture shows a man with torques in his left hand and a snake in his right hand, surrounded by a pearl circle . On the back is a horse with a head turned back to the right, surrounded by a circle of jagged teeth. The sites include Dünsberg , Waldgirmes and Limburg . The Ubier are the markers .

A similar representation of a man with a snake and torc is found on the Gundestrup kettle .

literature

• Hans Reeh: The symbolism of Celtic coins. An attempt to explain using three examples from the sphere of influence of the Dünsberg oppidum. And a comparison of “little dancing man” with “male bird” = Nauheim type. In: Messages of the Upper Hessian History Association Giessen. NF 93, 2008, ISSN  0342-1198 , pp. 31-59 ( online ; PDF; 4.6 MB).
• Johannes Heinrichs: Ubier, Chatten, Bataver. Middle and Lower Rhine approx. 70–71 BC Based on Germanic coins . In: Thomas Grünewald, Sandra Seibel (eds.): Continuity and discontinuity: Germania inferior at the beginning and at the end of Roman rule. Contributions to the German-Dutch colloquium at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, June 27 to 30, 2001. Berlin 2003, pp. 266-344.
• Jens Schulze-Forster: The Dünsberg and the youngest Celtic coins in Hessen. In: Jeannot Metzler, David Wigg-Wolf (Ed.): The Celts and Rome. New Numismatic Research. Fond de GrasTitelberg, Luxembourg, April 30 - May 3, 1998. (= Studies on Fund Coins of Antiquity, Vol. 19). Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3805335775 , pp. 155-178.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Heinrichs: Ubier, Chatten, Bataver. Middle and Lower Rhine approx. 70–71 BC Based on Germanic coins. P. 281