02-13-2006, 02:28 AM
Greetings,
This is the second reference I have found within two days.
The earliest Celtic coins found in Britain "were of pure gold, being direct imitations of the gold stater of Phillip II of Macedon...the spread of knowledge of such coinage is...generally held to be the result of migration and in particular the use of Celtic mercenaries by Philip and Alexander."
[url:ymqapveh]http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/languages/welsh/welsh-l/1994/Oct/Ceiniogau-a-Gwartheg---Coins-and-Cattle-in-Welsh-and-Celtic-History[/url]
Also: The gold staters and silver coins used by the Ancient Britons were local copies of the gold stater of Philip II of Macedon, which was used extensively in trade towards the end of the pre-Christian era. The laureate head of the Greek god Apollo on the obverse became a simple laurel wreath, and a crude horse represented the horse-drawn chariot on the reverse of the Macedonian stater. The Ancient British coinage ceased when the Roman armies occupied Yorkshire about 70 A.D.
[url:ymqapveh]http://www.huddersfield1.co.uk/huddersfield/tolson/coin_finds/ancient_coins.htm[/url]
That is interesting!
regards
Arthes
This is the second reference I have found within two days.
The earliest Celtic coins found in Britain "were of pure gold, being direct imitations of the gold stater of Phillip II of Macedon...the spread of knowledge of such coinage is...generally held to be the result of migration and in particular the use of Celtic mercenaries by Philip and Alexander."
[url:ymqapveh]http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/languages/welsh/welsh-l/1994/Oct/Ceiniogau-a-Gwartheg---Coins-and-Cattle-in-Welsh-and-Celtic-History[/url]
Also: The gold staters and silver coins used by the Ancient Britons were local copies of the gold stater of Philip II of Macedon, which was used extensively in trade towards the end of the pre-Christian era. The laureate head of the Greek god Apollo on the obverse became a simple laurel wreath, and a crude horse represented the horse-drawn chariot on the reverse of the Macedonian stater. The Ancient British coinage ceased when the Roman armies occupied Yorkshire about 70 A.D.
[url:ymqapveh]http://www.huddersfield1.co.uk/huddersfield/tolson/coin_finds/ancient_coins.htm[/url]
That is interesting!
regards
Arthes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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