Ancient Treasures From Golden Age Of Mystery (Celtic Coins)

Yorkshire Today ^ | 12-20-2003

[blam]

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[blam]

Ping.

[thinktwice]

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I can't resist ... They didn't have cameras then.

[Professional Engineer]

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[cricket]

Truly fascinating. Pre-history sharing the space of the 'moderns'. . .so far away in time; and yet, so close.

[LibKill]

From about 450BC to 50BC the Parisi buried their dead in cemeteries

Please tell me they were not of the detestable Frogs.

Pretty please?

[skraeling]

Please tell me they [the Parisi] were not of the detestable Frogs.

They may well have been their predecessors. The Parisi were just one of very many different Celtic tribes (and sub-tribes) which inhabited all of Northwest Europe, including England. They went by dozens of names, with a number of them in a large cluster known as the Celtic "Germanic" tribes. (Not to necessarily be confused with modern day Germans, many of whom have Slavic roots instead of Celtic.)

This is an interesting Celtic site.

[skraeling]

Trying that again... Celtic Site

[LibKill]

They may well have been their predecessors.

Thanks a lot. Now I don't want to live! :)

[Polybius]

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Here are some typical examples although not from that particular hoard.

CORIELTAUVI COINS

[jocon307]

Thanks for the pix and more info posts. This is the stuff that makes me REALLY LOVE the internet. It is the greatest gift to readers since Guttenberg. It continues to blow my mind that I can sit in my house, (or anywhere!) and read an article from "Yorkshire Today" a publication that in days gone by I probably could have lived to be 100 and never even heard of. Amazing!

[blam]

Thanks for the link. A lot of chevron, "C" and star shapes on those coins. I wonder what the meaning?

[Polybius]

Thanks for the pix and more info posts. This is the stuff that makes me REALLY LOVE the internet. It is the greatest gift to readers since Guttenberg. It continues to blow my mind that I can sit in my house, (or anywhere!) and read an article from "Yorkshire Today" a publication that in days gone by I probably could have lived to be 100 and never even heard of. Amazing!

And, if you want a souvenier.....................

eBay: CELTIC COINS

[blam]

"And, if you want a souvenier....................."

Thanks, I already bought a bucket of Kruggerands, lol.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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Good thing, too. Billy Boy would be getting the hots for the Celtic Queen.

[Polybius]

Thanks for the link. A lot of chevron, "C" and star shapes on those coins. I wonder what the meaning?

They could just be decorative.

Celtic coinage was very artistic and they liked to imitate the coin types of the Greeks and the Romans but, in their own style.

Below are examples of a silver tetradrachm of Philip II of Macedon (a popular "trade coin" during it's time) and a Celtic imitation of it. (Note how the beard of Zeus has been stylized into a swirl.)

In my collection, I have a stylized Celtic imitation of a drachm of Alexander. It's a beautiful little coin.

[blam]

"(Note how the beard of Zeus has been stylized into a swirl.)"

Yup, the 4,000 year old mummy of, Cherchen Man, found in the Chinese desert has one of those 'swirls' tattoed on the side of his face.

[Bosco]

Thanks for the story.

Just for reference, folks, "Celtic" is pronounced with a hard C, not the soft C.

Gaelic (at least Irish) doesn't have a K, so C is always hard and S is, well, S.

Does this mean...? Yes, they're not the Boston (pron) "Seltics". They are the (pron) "Celtics".

BTW - an interesting book about the Celts and Irish in particular is Dennis Cahill's "How the Irish Saved Civilization".

Merry Christmas.

[blam]

"BTW - an interesting book about the Celts and Irish in particular is Dennis Cahill's "How the Irish Saved Civilization"."

Thanks, I'm still trying to get through Henri Hubert's book, The History Of The Celtic People.

[PoisedWoman]

a warrior queen buried high on a ridge in the Yorkshire Wolds at Wetwang. ....Archaeologists believe she was probably a descendant of the Parisi and possibly the royal wife or daughter of an early chieftain.

Fascinating! But I wonder why they refer to her as a warrior queen and then assume she was a wife or daughter of a royal. I thought that warrior queens actually wielded swords and led trooops.

blam, again thanks for your ongoing archaeology finds. Digging through the Net is a special kind of "dig."