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. 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-coi...unters-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.

[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/sciencete...#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/sciencete...#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 :)