[meteorite-list] Celtic coin depicting comet?

From: Peter Davidson <P.Davidson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:39 +0100
Message-ID: <D7171847AEFC6A4893D80C75E547E27102D30D41_at_nmsmail02.nms2k.int>

Dear All

Looks intriguing. Is it a comet or is it lightning? The multiple "tails" suggest forked lightning to me. I will see if any of our numismatists can shed any light.

Regards

Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals
 
Department of Natural Sciences
National Museums Collection Centre
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Edinburgh EH5 1JA
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E-mail: p.davidson at nms.ac.uk
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From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Yinan Wang
Sent: 29 September 2010 00:08
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Celtic coin depicting comet?

Better picture, of two of the coins.

Ya, open to interpretation.

http://pics.livejournal.com/thefossiladdict/pic/000b01z6

-Yinan

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:40 PM, tett <tett at rogers.com> wrote:
> ?Or a fish jumping out of the water.
>
> That would be cool should this turn out to be a shooting star or meteoroid.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike Tettenborn
> Also porud owner of some NWA 6292
>
>
>
>
> On 28/09/2010 4:58 PM, Yinan Wang wrote:
>>
>> Just trying to get some opinions. I recently got a batch of celtic
>> coins from a french hoard in trade for some fossils.
>>
>> Two of the coins seem to have some interesting symbolism; what appears
>> to be a comet over two mountains.
>>
>> Or perhaps that my interpretation.
>>
>> See for yourself;
>> http://pics.livejournal.com/thefossiladdict/pic/000azspb
>>
>> Feedback? I'll try to get some better pictures later.
>>
>> -Yinan
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