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Stater Regenbogenschüsselchen IV A Type
| Issuer | Vindelici |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | 1 Stater (20) |
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| Obverse description | Convex field (characteristic of the Regenbogenschüsselchen bowl shape) surrounded by a wreath composed of multiple crescent-shaped elements arranged in an arc along the upper periphery, with their tips pointing inward toward the central field. The interior of the wreath is largely plain and empty, consistent with the abstract Celtic artistic tradition. The crescents are rendered in high relief with bold, stylized execution typical of late Iron Age Vindelician coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Regenbogenschüsselchen — "rainbow cup" in German — earned that name from a folk belief that these concave Celtic gold staters appeared in fields after rainstorms, marking the spots where rainbows touched earth. The Vindelici occupied the region north of the Alps roughly corresponding to modern Bavaria and parts of Austria, and their coinage circulated widely across the Celtic tribal networks of central Europe without ever passing through a centralized mint in any Roman sense of the term.
The Type IV A classification follows Kostial's die study, which attempted to bring taxonomic order to what is an exceptionally difficult series to sequence chronologically.