Celtic Coins Found in England

[L.D.Brousse]

The Celtic coins found in England that have been in the news. Almost from the grainy picture look like Santone/Pictone coins from France to me. What are your thoughts?

[sparkey]

Could you give a link so we know what you're talking about? Most reports that pop up for me have to do with Celtic coins in Jersey (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/english-treasure-hunters-celtic-coins_n_1629128.html). Jersey is much closer to France than England, and isn't part of England (although it's a dependency of the UK). Although, that is a very interesting find.

[L.D.Brousse]

http://www.webpronews.com/celtic-coins-found-by-amateur-uk-treasure-hunters-2012-06


The below are Santone coins from SW France

Your right about the location Sparkey now that I look a little better maybe not from the same tribe

[L.D.Brousse]

Pictone coins

[hope]

If you are in fact talking about those in the link Sparkey gave ( thanks Sparkey) then it is a pretty good find L.D.Brousse, they say it is to date the biggest found here.
They date them to around 50BC, a time when Rome was pushing forward on Gaul, so they could perhaps have come from that direction I suppose.
All I know is that around that time the "aureus" coin was introduced .

Nice haul to have unearthed thats for sure.


Edit: Just noticed ,they found in the same area back in 1935 another haul of 11,000 coins.

[spongetaro]

It really looks like the coins of the Parisii. Actually, the photo is the same that we found on the Wikipedia page about the Parisii.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/CoinsOfTheParisii.jpg/800px-CoinsOfTheParisii.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/ParisiiCoins.jpg/800px-ParisiiCoins.jpg

[L.D.Brousse]

It seems most Celtic tribal coins look pretty close they all share the same layout

[hope]

It seems most Celtic tribal coins look pretty close they all share the same layout

Yes, I think many of them ( maybe not all) copied the Greek layout.

[Diviacus]

They date them to around 50BC, a time when Rome was pushing forward on Gaul, so they could perhaps have come from that direction I suppose.
The article says they come from the Coriosolitae. So you have the answer.

[Diviacus]

Sorry, theinformation about the Coriosolitae comes from another report:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164897/Iron-Age-coins-worth-10m-discovered-Jersey-metal-detector-friends.html#ixzz1z4CM7mwN
BTW, read in this report the article "Caesar's long-haired ennemies": it's a long time I have seen such a ridiculous article about the Celts !

[hope]

Sorry, theinformation about the Coriosolitae comes from another report:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164897/Iron-Age-coins-worth-10m-discovered-Jersey-metal-detector-friends.html#ixzz1z4CM7mwN
BTW, read in this report the article "Caesar's long-haired ennemies": it's a long time I have seen such a ridiculous article about the Celts !


I wonder if he means the men AND women had moustaches ! lol :)