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Message:: [QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4207689, member: 74834"]Celtic coins surely are showing great inventivity, and it is clear that the creators of these types didn't think along the same lines as the Roman or Greek celators. Possibly these coins didn't have the same aim as those everyday payment items - they might be votive objects, things to show off with, religious tokens or badges. We simply don't know. Here are some of my favorites. [ATTACH=full]1078642[/ATTACH] Bellovaci (South Somme – mid-Vallée de l’Oise). AE "with the lion", class I, c. 75-60 BC. Obv. Curly head. Rev. Branch-maned lion jumps to the left. 16 mm, 2.50 gr. LaTour 8577. Bought at the coin fair in Tienen (Belgium), 2015. [ATTACH=full]1078645[/ATTACH] AE Carnutes, 1st century BC. Obverse: head to the right with decorative hair. Reverse: a large and a small bird (eagles) with outspread wings are attacking a serpent. Pentagram left, cross or sun in the middle. 17 mm, 2.56 gr. La Tour 6088. Bought at the coin fair in Leuven (Belgium), 2016. [ATTACH=full]1078646[/ATTACH] A very fascinating, more abstract design: Potin Lingones, 80-50 BC. Obv. Three-lock / triskelion / 3 fish bubble shapes. Rev. 3 thick S-shapes around a center. 18 mm, 2.23 gr. The Lingones tribe was living around what’s now Langres. LaTour 8329. Bought from a German firm on Ebay, 2018.[/QUOTE]