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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2673354, member: 8959&quot;]Amazing!</p><p>It will be interesting to find which of the many Celtic tribe(s) minted these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>When talking about &#039;the Celts&#039; one must remember that the word is actually a general term used to denote the many tribes which lived in many places in Europe, and which flourished roughly until the arrival of the Romans. Thus we have the Celtic tribes of Britain, those of Gaul, of the Rhine Area, from the Danube area, as well as the Eastern celtic tribes.</p><p><br /></p><p>To come back to the coins, one may expect that given the place they were found the coins are primarily likely to be of British or Gallic origin, although some trade between the various tribes did exist even in those times.</p><p>Finding this many which are attributable to just a few tribes will probably impact their availability (and therefore also their collector desirability). </p><p>By contrast, celtic coins of the Germanic (Rhineland) tribes specifically continue to be quite scarce. Relatively few have been found.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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