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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan P, post: 3741255, member: 99051&quot;]That is so cool! The Celtic Tet is a kugelwange (&quot;ball cheek&quot;) coin. I have one myself.[ATTACH=full]1003454[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>20 mm, 11.46 g</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Stylized laureate head of Zeus right</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: Stylized horse prancing left, pellet-in-annulet above, pelleted cross below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lanz 468-9; OTA 193/9.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cobbled together the following info on these coins as well:</p><p><br /></p><p>Around the end of the 3rd century B.C., the Celtic Scordisci tribe started issuing their own local coinages imitating the types of Philip II of Macedon. These coinages had a limited volume of production and a restricted area of circulation, so their finds are not numerous and occur mostly in their own territory and in the neighboring territories of other Celtic or Celticized tribes. The Scordisci were originally formed after the Celtic invasion of Macedonia and Northern Greece (280-279 BC) which culminated in a great victory against the Greeks at Thermopylae and the sacking of Delphi, the center of the Greek world. The Celts then retreated back to the north of the Balkans (suffering many casualties along the way) and settled on the mouth of the Sava River calling themselves the Scordisci after the nearby Scordus (now Sar) mountains. The Scordisci, since they dominated the important Sava valley, the only route to Italy, in the second half of the 3rd century BC, gradually became the most powerful tribe in the central Balkans.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 141 BC, the Scordisci were constantly involved in battles against Roman held Macedonia. They were defeated in 135 BC by Cosconius in Thrace. In 118 BC, according to a memorial stone discovered near Thessalonica, Sextus Pompeius, probably the grandfather of the triumvir, was slain fighting against them near Stobi. In 114 BC, they surprised and destroyed the army of Gaius Porcius Cato in the western mountains of Serbia, but were defeated by Minucius Rufus in 107 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>From time to time they still gave trouble to the Roman governors of Macedonia, whose territory they invaded, even advancing as far as Delphi for a second time and once again plundering the temple; but Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus finally overcame them in 88 BC and drove them back across the Danube. After this, the power of the Scordisci declined rapidly. This decline was more a result of the political situation in their surrounding territories rather than the effects of Roman campaigns, as their client tribes, especially the Pannonians, became more powerful and politically independent. Between 56 and 50 BC, the Scordisci were defeated by Burebista&#039;s Dacians (a Thracian king of the Getae and Dacian tribes), and became subject to him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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