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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1632009, member: 26302"]Eh, maybe, maybe not. The scholarship proving these are "coins" is extremely sketchy. The major problems are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Doesn't fit definition of a coin, no mark of issuing authority</p><p>2. No readily identifiable system of denominations</p><p><br /></p><p>As metal, of course they could be traded. Same was done all over the world. I simply reject them as "coins". Also, btw, almost all "celtic ring money" on Ebay is a fraud. What they most likely are is remnants of bridles. Every bridle has about 40 of these little bronze ringlets on them, when the bridle gets buried in the ground the leather rots away but the bronze remains. The fact they dug these pieces of bronze up from the ground, or they may be old, is not the issue. The issue is they were never coins or traded as coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1632009, member: 26302"]Eh, maybe, maybe not. The scholarship proving these are "coins" is extremely sketchy. The major problems are: 1. Doesn't fit definition of a coin, no mark of issuing authority 2. No readily identifiable system of denominations As metal, of course they could be traded. Same was done all over the world. I simply reject them as "coins". Also, btw, almost all "celtic ring money" on Ebay is a fraud. What they most likely are is remnants of bridles. Every bridle has about 40 of these little bronze ringlets on them, when the bridle gets buried in the ground the leather rots away but the bronze remains. The fact they dug these pieces of bronze up from the ground, or they may be old, is not the issue. The issue is they were never coins or traded as coinage.[/QUOTE]
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