Rainbow bowl
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As Rainbow Cup in the will vernacular , a special type of Celtic gold and silver coins called, in a space that extends from the area of today's Hungary via Austria as far as southern Germany were extended, widespread. They were probably made by the Celtic tribes of the Boier and Vindeliker and the Rhine Germans in the period from around 300 BC. Until the turn of the century. Another name is "mussel staters". However, the first coins minted in the Celtic region are 1/24 stater .
The bowl-shaped and usually unlabelled gold pieces cannot be intuitively recognized as coins . As a rule, they only have abstract symbolic patterns such as spheres, points, circles or stars or simple representational motifs from the world of images of the Celts such as bird heads or snakes .
The name rainbow bowl came about because of the characteristic bowl shape and a superstition that says that the pieces of gold dripped down from a rainbow and remained on the earth at the foot of the rainbow.
The rainbow bowls, which often came to the surface when plowing fields, were later often rinsed clean when it rains and, due to their metallic sheen, discovered on the field. Since one could not explain the origin of the bowl-shaped pieces of gold, the popular belief arose that the rainbow bowls were heavenly lucky charms , which were also said to have healing properties for epilepsy, cramps, fever and labor pains. Presumably, this find situation forms the core of the Grimm folk tale " Die Sterntaler ".
The Bohemian numismatist Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt took the discovery of the Podmokl coin treasure in 1771 as an opportunity to characterize the rainbow bowls found at Podmokl and previously at Nischburg as early local coins and refuted various theories of foreign origin.
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literature
- Ernst Heinrich Meier : German legends, customs and traditions from Swabia No. 256 legends from the rainbow , Stuttgart 1852
- Adauct Voigt a St. Germano : Write to a friend of the one at Podmokl in the Hochfürstl. Gold coins found in the villages of the Fürstenberg rule Pürglitz in Bohemia , Prague 1771
- Franz Streber : About the home and the age of the so-called rainbow bowl . In: About the so-called rainbow bowl . tape 1 . Munich 1860, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 824-dtl-0000083136 .
- Franz Streber: Description of the s. G. Rainbow bowl and her types try to explain . In: About the so-called rainbow bowl . tape 2 . Munich 1862, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10685074-0 .
