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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 7798800, member: 97383"]Ryro, You've presented a group of bizarre & fascinating Celtic coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! I love Celtic coins because they tease our imaginations & take us to places that other coins don't <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The coin pictured below is one of my favorites & definitely fits the category of the bizarre <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It is a seldom seen rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1339031[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Veneti Tribe, Northwest Gaul, circa 100-50 BC. AR Stater: 19.5 mm, 7.19 gm, 8 h. Obverse: head of the Celtic deity Ogmios, the psychopomp (one who leads the souls of the dead to their resting place). Reverse: Chariot driven by a man holding a stalk with a rosette on the top, powered by a man headed horse. Below the horse is a wild boar. Gruel & Morin 469.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The Veneti may have been a group of Belgae people who divided into two groups, one who settled in the Baltic region & the other who settled in the Morbihan district of modern Brittany. For a time they controlled all the trade to Britain. They fought the forces of Julius Caesar for this control. In the summer of 56 BC, Caesar met the forces of 200 Veneti ships in Quiberon Bay & won a glorious victory. After this victory Caesar executed all the tribal leaders & enslaved the survivors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 7798800, member: 97383"]Ryro, You've presented a group of bizarre & fascinating Celtic coins :happy:! I love Celtic coins because they tease our imaginations & take us to places that other coins don't :cool:. The coin pictured below is one of my favorites & definitely fits the category of the bizarre :p. It is a seldom seen rarity. [ATTACH=full]1339031[/ATTACH] [B]Veneti Tribe, Northwest Gaul, circa 100-50 BC. AR Stater: 19.5 mm, 7.19 gm, 8 h. Obverse: head of the Celtic deity Ogmios, the psychopomp (one who leads the souls of the dead to their resting place). Reverse: Chariot driven by a man holding a stalk with a rosette on the top, powered by a man headed horse. Below the horse is a wild boar. Gruel & Morin 469. [/B] The Veneti may have been a group of Belgae people who divided into two groups, one who settled in the Baltic region & the other who settled in the Morbihan district of modern Brittany. For a time they controlled all the trade to Britain. They fought the forces of Julius Caesar for this control. In the summer of 56 BC, Caesar met the forces of 200 Veneti ships in Quiberon Bay & won a glorious victory. After this victory Caesar executed all the tribal leaders & enslaved the survivors.[/QUOTE]
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