Celtic Coinage: New Discoveries, New Discussion

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The papers collected in this volume were, with a couple of exceptions, presented at a conference on Celtic coinage held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, on 6th – 7th December 2001. With seventeen speakers and an audience of ninety, this was by far the largest gathering devoted specifically to Celtic numismatics since the 1989 Oxford, and indeed must have been one of the largest meetings devoted to Celtic coinage ever to have taken place. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents List of contributors Introduction: retrospect and prospect Early potin coinage in Britain: an update Metaphors, meaning & money: contextualising some symbols on Iron Age coins Coinage and wine in Gaul Shamanic practices and trance imagery in the Iron Age Distribution and ritual deposition of Iron Age coins in the South Midlands The role of Iron Age coinage in archaeological contexts The impact of the Roman conquest on indigenous coinages in Belgic Gaul and southern Britain Belgic coins in Britain The Belgae in Hampshire The Belgae and Regini The silver coinage of Tasciovanos The Iceni early face/horse series An Iron Age coin weight from Rotherwick, Hampshire The Silsden hoard: discovery, investigation and new interpretations