I’ve found myself looking at a number of Celtic coins lately, but am unsure what references or catalogues are available to help identify them. What do you all recommend? I see Rudd’s book on Ancient British Coins, but was hoping to find something that covered the continent. Sear’s book on Ancient Greek Coins and their Values covers some, but as we all know this is by no means a complete source (and so far it doesn’t look like CNG’s Handbook on Greek Coins will have a volume on Celtic coins). so what sources do you use? And for fun, here is my only Celtic coin so far (minor write-up here): Celtic - Britannia The Durotriges (58 B.C.-43 A.D.) Cranborne Chase Type AR Stater, 19mm x 5.95 grams Obv.: Wreath, cloak and crescents Rev.: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, three roughly horizontal lines for tail, pellet below, twelve pellets above Ref.: SCBC 366, SGCV 172
There isn't a single good reference that covers all Celtic coins. There's a list of books here https://collectingancientcoins.co.u...oins-collecting-celtic-coins/#Further_Reading and the Iron Age Coin group on Facebook is pretty good.
This is a good question. I collect British Celtic coins, so Chris Rudd is great for me. Van Arsdell is another key reference for Britain https://www.vanarsdellcelticcoinageofbritain.com/ But I don't know for the Danube, the Eastern Celts etc...auctions and dealers seem to use Henri De La Tour, Delestrée & Tache, Georges Depeyrot, Catalogue of Celtic Coins in the British Museum and the Hermann Lanz collection. Here are some more British Celtic coins... Epaticcus, AD20-40 Atrebates. Silver, 1.2g. Victory seated right, TAS-CIO-V around. Boar right, tree behind, EPAT below (ABC 1349). Antedios D-Bar, AD10-30 Iceni. Silver, 1.0g. Horse right, corn-ear mane, pellet daisy above, pellet triad and ANTĐ monogram below. Double moon emblem on vertical wreath. (ABC 1645; VA 711, 715). Found Norfolk.
I just ordered Dafne Nash's Coinage in the Celtic World today, which I found listed in the bibliography of Bernhard Maier's The Celts. I'll give my report on the book after I've had a chance to peruse it, but it appears to be an overview of all Celtic coinage, both British and Continental.
Also, I can highly recommend Coinage in Iron Age Armorica, by Philip de Jersey. Extremely thorough. I've had this reference for some years and I've found it very useful.
I recently ordered Celtic Coinage in Britain, also by Philip de Jersey. It hasn’t arrived yet. It appears to be readily available.
I’d love to access more reference books in general.. but do not have the space or desire to collect physical books .. As others have said I’m not sure there is any one stop shop for Celtic references. A great online resource focused on the Coriosolite coinage can be found here http://www.writer2001.com/improvisations.htm Author John Hooker went into great detail. We discussed it a bit in the thread below - it was pretty cool to get an exact ID on some of my own coins https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-new-corisolite-stater.351496/ A couple more references not mentioned yet are Kostial and Lukanc - I come across them often when browsing Eastern Celts/ imitatives
I have only a couple of Celtic coins from different Celtic regions. I like the Celtic imagery. Had the Romans not conquered much of Europe, pictoral arts would likely have taken a completely different route. Western Celts: OSISMES (Région de Carhaix - Finistère) Statère au sanglier et à l’aigle Weight: 6.6g (24 mm) REDONES/RHEDONES (capital Condate/Rennes) Date: BC 100 - 50 Class 7a. Weight: 6.68 g (24.5mm) Eastern Celts Type Kroisbach, Tetradrachm Ca. AD 100 - 50 Weight: 16.67g (23mm)
