Date: c. 200 – 100 BC Description: Ring Money – Gaul, Uncertain Tribe (Quadrangular gold ring with abutments in each corner), dating from 200 – 100 BC. Weight: 0.86 g Diameter: 14 mm Further Reading: Blog Post – What is Celtic Ring Money ? Blog Post – Why have no Celtic coins been found in Ireland…
Date: c. 200 – 100 BC Description: Britannia, uncertain tribe, Celtic “Ring Money” gold-plated on bronze core, holes in plating in smooth penannular form, decorated at one end. 2nd-1st Millennium BC. Near Extremely Fine. Rare. Weight: 2.20 g Diameter: 18 mm Further Reading: Blog Post – What is Celtic Ring Money ? Blog Post – Why…
Long before the introduction of struck coinage into ancient Celtic Europe, copper and gold rings were used as currency by Celtic tribes and were often worn on clothing or tied together by ropes. These particular rings, often referred to as “proto-currency”, were created in ancient Moesia (now Bulgaria) as long ago as 7th century BC.…
In order to understand the ‘situation’ of the Irish Celts and, therefore, theorize as to “why they did not produce coins like their English cousins”, we first need to understand the situation of the English Celtic tribes. By the 2nd century BC (the Late Iron Age in Britain) the locals were trading iron “currency bars”…
Celtic coinage is the most intriguing and varied of all the British coins since no one knows specifically for whom, when or where they were produced. To date, over 45,000 of ancient British and Gaulish coins have been discovered in Britain and all of these have been recorded at the Oxford Celtic Coin Index, but…
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