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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1317351, member: 26302&quot;]I have been to China as well sir and have seen &quot;bridge money&quot;, &quot;bell money&quot;, and many other things in their coin display cases. I do not accept that those items were true items only made for mediums as exchange either. Also, many museums are very ill equipped to deal with coins, and simply copy what others say, so I would not trust most museums to be very authoritative versus published numismatists. Very few do any type of research whatsoever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its a continuum sir, and I simply believe these are too close to functional use to be classified as solely for medium of exchange. Like I said, anything metal was valued in antiquity and could be traded, but why would these rings be made for their &quot;money&quot; when SO MANY bronze celtic coins have been found? It sure does not appear that they made these rings as their predominant bronze coinage, and that they knew HOW to make proper coinage and did so extensively. </p><p><br /></p><p>Given these facts, I am simply unable to accept these things were made for coinage purposes. After they were made for other reasons, they may have traded as small change, but so would any other type of bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, we can agree to disagree. My main problem is all of these &quot;celtic ring money&quot; coins on Ebay I truly believe to mostly horse bridal remnants coming out of eastern europe, with no way to possibly date them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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