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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 99239, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Cultural Ignorance</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Celtic coins are not &quot;crude.&quot;&nbsp; They are only described that way by people who never knew how to view them.&nbsp; They are not &quot;Picassos.&quot;&nbsp; They are not &quot;abstract.&quot;&nbsp; The only reason they boggle the mind is that we do not look at them the right way.</p><p><br /></p><p>See here:</p><p><a href="http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/SeeingThePast/324" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/SeeingThePast/324" rel="nofollow">http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/SeeingThePast/324</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I spoke at &quot;Coinage and Identity in the Ancient World&quot; in Calgary November 2004, the conference organizer and moderator, Geraldine Chimirri-Russell had only made a few presentations on her new view of Celtic coins. They only hints were brief mentions such as this:</p><p><a href="http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/britnumsoc/Newsletter_July_04.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/britnumsoc/Newsletter_July_04.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/britnumsoc/Newsletter_July_04.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, more people are coming to understand the truth about Celtic coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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