Latest info. on Celtic hoards from Thrace: http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/deus-ex-machina-celtic-hoards-from-thrace/
Cool story, thanks for posting it! I would really like to collect Celtic coins some day. I really love celtic history but they are just SO expensive for a nice example. Also the whole counterfit thing scares me a little. Anyway, someday I guess.
I recently read a survey Paunov wrote of aureii discovered in the Balkans. I hope this new paper eventually finds its way to academia.edu.
Anoob's Stater I had bough this coin, simply because it had a great design. The Coin is described as a Coriosolite Amorican Celtic Stater....approx. 20mm and 6.20g The piece is a Billon coin of "debased silver" The coin features a stylized head of Apollo? facing right and on the reverse a stylized Charioteer and Horse Boar below. This coin had been in a previous collection for over 25 years, but a very recent and wildly huge hoard was found on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, located between Modern France (Brittany) and England.... See the Article here... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...friends.html Also I found a great work shop software here.... http://www.writer2001.com/exp0002.htm I played around with this for quite a while and I learned alot about what I am looking at when I look at Celtic coins, this also helps you with attribution, chronology and to understand the development and significance of the style of these great coins. These coins where circulated as Julius Caesars Army moved West, driving the Gauls towards the Sea. Attached Thumbnails
There's a free book on the Coriosolites coins here: http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-art-of-rejection-balkan-celtic-art-pdf/ (2nd link down)
