celtic potin

[loud ed]

the mrs found this one today

 

[Mackaydon]

GL:
This site should answer some of your Qs.
http://www.ancientimports.com/introtopotinsofgaul.html
Don.......

 

[Silver Searcher]

I bet this is more important than it looks. The tone of some of the responses allude to something exceptional about this find. Can you explain why this is so amazing? Just being Celtic makes it tops to me. You said you didnt know why it was where you are, why? What is a potin? How old is it, what is it and why are the English here are so excited? I want to be more excited too! Tell me I want to know! Celtic things are fascinating to me.


All gold coins dug from the earth should make banner regardless if they are 80 years old or 800. Gold coins are the universal image for treasure and it seems to be the one thing anyone digs up that makes their heart skip at first glance and draws their breath short as they hold it. Gold coins are the bullseye. Rare silver is nice, diamond rings are great but a gold coin is truly special and if a golden Celtic coin was found and didnt make banner instantly than I dont understand what the banner is for. Ancient treasure coins seems like a no brainer...Think of it...a golden coin in the Iron Age...now youre holding it.

Gl..... you might want to ask Jeff that very question, I found a Celtic Gold coin recently, and for some reason got a Banner snub untill that is, that they were many complaints, and Jeff reluctantly put it on the Banner

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

I bet this is more important than it looks. The tone of some of the responses allude to something exceptional about this find. Can you explain why this is so amazing? Just being Celtic makes it tops to me. You said you didnt know why it was where you are, why? What is a potin? How old is it, what is it and why are the English here are so excited? I want to be more excited too! Tell me I want to know! Celtic things are fascinating to me.


All gold coins dug from the earth should make banner regardless if they are 80 years old or 800. Gold coins are the universal image for treasure and it seems to be the one thing anyone digs up that makes their heart skip at first glance and draws their breath short as they hold it. Gold coins are the bullseye. Rare silver is nice, diamond rings are great but a gold coin is truly special and if a golden Celtic coin was found and didnt make banner instantly than I dont understand what the banner is for. Ancient treasure coins seems like a no brainer...Think of it...a golden coin in the Iron Age...now youre holding it.

The distribution of this are generally recorded in the South-East corner of the UK ie. the Kent area. However, some do break the normal distribution. These show the links between the various Iron Age Tribes & shows that they were mobile & probably trading (athough at the time a monetary system was non-existant in the UK).