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Celtic coinage was minted by the Celts from the late 4th century BC to the mid 1st century AD. Celtic coins were influenced by trade with and the supply of mercenaries to the Greeks, and initially copied Greek designs, especially Macedonian coins from the time of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great.
His staters again featured the palm branch among other images. [46] His bronze and silver coins developed over time from Celtic-influenced designs to those influenced by a very wide range of Mediterranean coinage. [46] Cunobelin's coins may have been the last issued in the area prior to the Roman invasion in AD 43. [46]
There have been three sets of coins in Ireland since independence. In all three, the coin showed a Celtic harp on the obverse.The pre-decimal coins of the Irish pound had realistic animals on the reverse; the decimal coins retained some of these but featured ornamental birds on the lower denominations; and the euro coins used the common design of the euro currencies.
Vol. 5: The coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain and the kings of the Yemen in the British Museum, classes XIVb-XXVII (1880) Vol. 6: The coins of the Mongols in the British Museum, classes XVIII-XXII (1881) Vol. 7: The coinage of Bukhara (Transoxiana) in the British Museum from the time of Timur to the present day, classes XXII- XXIII (1882)
the hoard was acquired by Baron de Donop in Coburg, who published the coin images; through the heirs, the coins went to various museums and collectors, including the Dresden coin cabinet (until 1945) At least 982 Armorican billon staters, mostly issued by the Curiosolitae [9] Rozel Hoard (1875) mid 1st century B.C. (c. 40 B.C.)
The chronology of the sceattas is also very hard to unravel. Some of the earliest series use the same designs as the pale gold thrymsas (similar to the continental Latin: tremissis; notionally one-third of a pure gold solidus) and, by analogy with coins from the better-understood Frankish material, can be dated to
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Coin of King "Sihtric" of Dublin (r. 989–1036– ) Hiberno-Norse coins were first produced in Dublin in about 997 under the authority of King Sitric Silkbeard.The first coins were local copies of the issues of Aethelred II of England, and as the Anglo-Saxon coinage of the period changed its design every six years, the coinage of Sitric followed this pattern.