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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3840129, member: 96898&quot;]Very nice coins, everyone, and a truly fascinating collection area!</p><p><br /></p><p>These (common and admittedly very unappealing) overstrikes copying a Greek coin type are often attributed to the Bastarnae, a tribe that in the Roman period settled in Eastern Europe in an area between the Danube and the Dnieper rivers. If this attribution as well as the common scholarly thesis that the Bastarnae were a Germanic or mixed Celtic-Germanic tribe are correct, these are arguably the earliest coins minted by a Germanic political entity:</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1019343[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Eastern Celts: Bastarnae? (interpretation Topalov), AE 18 overstruck on Greek coin, 2nd–1st century BC, southeastern Bulgaria. Obv: primitive head of Strymon, die almost worn blank. Rev: ornamented trident. 18mm, 5.70g. Ref: imitating SNG Copenhagen 1298; see Pannov: Koine (2013), pp. 191–2; Macdonald: Overstruck (2009), pp. 99–114.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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