Giving up coins is like giving up cigarettes..

There are so, so, so many different designs for Celtic coins. Some are loosely based on Greek or Roman coins, some are very much Celtic.
Here are a few from the first category (based on Roman or Greek):

Danubian Celts, with Zeus on the obv; a horse on the reverse


Idem, but slightly larger nose


Based on Macedon: head of Zeus on obv; trident on reverse


Iberocelts; stylistic (Augustus?) bust on obv; typical reverse with moon and animals


Idem

The second category, very much Celtic:

Central/belgicae


Lingones


Lower countries


Durotriges (UK) with a boat; lightning bolt...

It's just such an interesting field!

 

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Here is an aureus of a pudgy Nero, and an an aureus that is a dynastic issue of Vespasian with both his sons riding horseback on the reverse.

 

JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 3 Constantinople Third Coinage Variation B SBCV-1940
OBV IC XC in upper field.

Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back: , holds gospels in l. Pellet in each limb of the cross.

REV Full length figure of emperor on l. , crowned by Virgin. Emperor wears stemma, divitision. Collar piece, and paneled loros of a simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Size 30.57mm

Weight 4.3gm

DOC lists 5 examples of type B with weights from 4.22gm to 4.43gm and sizes from 30 mm to 31mm

I only have a few gold coins. love this Hyperpyron.

 

I quit smoking several years back and then had more money to buy coins.

 

I never really got started in smoking, and I STILL do not have enough money for all the coins I want!

 

I was spending $150 per month on cigarettes and smoking about 7 cigs per day. The savings equates to about 1 decent coin per month in addition to my regular coin budget.

 

For me, Byzantine is outside my main collecting area so 'feels' twice as expensive as something I really 'need'. (So is gold, come to think of it). Maybe Greek and Roman gold just fits better within people's parameters (and is where they're looking in the first place).

Still, that didn't stop me getting a Byzantine bronze...I love the bold design and 'look to camera' style after so many Roman profiles. It's a sizeable 29mm too, and it's only a half follis.



Justinian I, 541-542, Nicomedia, half follis, 29mm, 11g. D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVI, Justinian holding globus cruciger and shield. ANNO XЧ, K with Christogram.

 

..that's a nice one!...i've been trying to get one of those plague ones...thought i'd got but was a year off...

 

I wouldn't know don't smoke but I am addicted to MONEY and collecting also. Thanks for the post be safe.