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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3160556, member: 76194&quot;]10,000? Ya got me licked. I&#039;ve only got 4,997 posts as of this present post. I&#039;d do something to celebrate 5,000 but I think I&#039;d rather save up to do something special for the community for my 10,000th post. That&#039;s only around February or March of 2020, so it won&#039;t be long, and it gives me time to plan and fund the &quot;Mother of all Give-a-ways&quot; or maybe a random &quot;Surprise mid-tier coin for random poster&quot;, or something like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an area I&#039;d like to focus more on over my next 5,000 posts. Celtic!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]811107[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>No, not those Celtics, these guys! The ancient Celtic coinage from the tribes that often get ignored by historians focused on the Greeks and Romans, and even by coin collectors too. I want to focus a little more on these guys and their coins. Here is a beauty:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]811108[/ATTACH]</p><p>CELTIC, Gaul (Armorica). Circa 75-56 BC.</p><p>Curiosolitae tribe</p><p>Billon Stater, 21mm, 6.6g, 3h; Class II.</p><p>Obv.: Crude head right, anchor-shaped nose.</p><p>Rev.: Celticized chariot right; Celticized boar below.</p><p>Reference: P. de Jersey, Coinage in Iron Age Armorica, fig. 51, class II; SCBC 15[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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