Catalogue Of The Celtic Coins In The British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Celtic Coins in the British Museum: Bronze coins of Gaul written by Derek Allen and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of The Catalogue of Celtic Coins in the British Museum is concerned with the struck and cast potin bronze coinage of Gaul. The earliest coins are likely to have been issued in the later second or early first century BC, and the latest circulation continued in the first century AD. The introduction discusses coin production, function, metrology and denominations, chronology and contexts, distribution and attribution, and provides a detailed commentary on the catalogue.