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The Distribution of Gaulish and British Coins in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

George C. Brooke
George C. Brooke*
Affiliation:
British Museum
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The origin of the British coinage has in recent years broken loose from the tradition of an early 2nd century date. Its date is necessarily dependent upon the dating of the Gaulish coinage from which it is derived ; the link with Gaul has militated against the simpler view of the British coinage which would result from bringing the earliest issues into closer relation with those that bear names of princes known to history. The coinage of Gaul has lost perspective by the attempt to make it span the wide gap between Philip 11 of Macedon and the Roman conquest ; a very slow development of type has been assumed, and devious trade routes have been created to bring the gold stater from Macedon into Gaul.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 27 , September 1933 , pp. 268 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1933

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References

1 See Hawkes, and Dunning, , The Belgae of Gaul and Britain, in Arch. Journ. 1930, 87, I5Off.Google Scholar

2 op. cit. p. 189.

3 But the signature Calle on coins of Eppillus cannot be identified with Calleva. See p. 283.

4 Unless a few copper coins bearing no mint signature are to be assigned to Verulam ; this is unlikely.