1/4 Stater Regenbogenschüsselchen Type

The Vindelici occupied a stretch of territory roughly between the Danube and the Alps, and their coinage — produced without a mint in any urban sense — was likely struck by itinerant craftsmen serving tribal needs. The "rainbow cup" designation comes from later German folklore: farmers plowing fields would occasionally turn up these tiny concave gold pieces after rainstorms, crediting them to rainbows rather than the Iron Age Celts who actually dropped them.

The Kostial 12 reference places this among the better-documented die groupings of a notoriously difficult series to attribute with precision.