Heb eindelijk een determinatie (op forum ancient coins):
This is a real curiosity, mainly in working out how this coin got mixed in with Celtic coins, and how it got to France
It is a silver unit (assuming it is c.2.3 gm and 10 mm) of the Hindu Kingdom of Sailendra in what is now Indonesia, c.800-950 AD: see
http://www.coincoin.com/HSWM8.345.jpg from this page on Scott Semans' site
http://www.coincoin.com/seHS.htmThe obverse is actually a degraded form of the Sanskrit syllable 'ma' representing the denomination of 1 'massa'.
A real puzzle, and I would assume it got mixed in with the lot at some time in trade rather than really being found with the Celtic coins. Alternatively, it might have been a 19th-20th century loss (bought back from the Far East as a souvenir) which was found in the same area as a scatter of Celtic coins by a metal-detector user: I expect we'll never know.
Best wishes
Alan
Groeten Michiel
