In the space of little more than a hundred years, from the Roman conquest of Gaul in the mid first century BC to the defeat of Boudicca in AD61, Britain saw the final and arguably the most impressive phase in the development of Celtic coinage. The coins are not only beautiful and attractive in their own right, but also extraordinarily useful evidence in our attempts to understand Celtic society at this period. This book provides a general introduction to Celtic coinage in Britain. It analyses how and why the coins were made, describing the most significant types and many of the more obscure varieties, and explaining how the coins and the images they carry can reveal information on the political, economic and social life of the Celts. The book is fully illustrated with some of the best examples of Celtic coinage and provides details of museums where coins can be seen, as well as suggestions for more detailed reading.
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Philip de Jersey was born and brought up in Guernsey, where he spent as much time as possible working on archaeological excavations. He graduated in Geography at Hertford College, Oxford, and remained there to complete his DPhil thesis on the late iron age period in north-west France. Since 1992 he has been employed at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford to maintain and computerise the Celtic Coin Index, a detailed record of more than thirty thousand British Celtic coins.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Short, easy introduction to British Celtic coins,
This review is from: Celtic Coinage in Britain (Shire Archaeology) (Paperback)
I am a beginner who was interested in British Celtic coin collection. This book is just the right length and the right depth for me. It has pictures of the main variations, some history of coin making, a little about the techniques, a regional breakdown of the various Celtic kingdoms and not too much more. I could read it in a couple of hours and feel informed enough to start looking for coins to buy. Highly recommended for beginners.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Extremely Interesting for the Coin Collector,
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Celtic Coinage in Britain (Shire Archaeology) (Paperback)
This is a must have book for anyone interested in coins in general and Celtic coins in particular. Amazon have provided an extremely interesting synopsis to this book that gives you all the basic informationyou will need to know on the contents of this book and it needs no addition from me. With the influx of the metal detector, more and more old coins are coming on to the open market, you only need to look at e-bay to see that, but Celtic coins are not in abundance. There are probably far more Roman coins found than celtic. What this book does very well is show the reader how much history can be learned from a single coin and the image that has been stamped upon it. Celtic coins for me seem to have that much more of an aura about them. in fact holding any old coin has a magic all of its own, not least, the thought of who was the last person to own and hold the coin before it was found once again.
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Very interesting, just wish it had a little more detail,
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This review is from: Celtic Coinage in Britain (Shire Archaeology) (Paperback)
Very informative little book, I learned a lot that I needed toknow but I wish that it could've had just a little more detail (butfor the price I can't complain). Now if a few Celtic coins would just show up on Amazon's auction site.
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