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 AD 61, 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.

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.

In this pocket volume, Celtic coin artist and researcher Simon Lilly unveils the amazing lost world of early European art hidden in museums and private collections all over the world.

The seventeen papers presented at the 11th Oxford numismatic Symposium include: The Celtic Coin Index (D Harrison), South East England (D Fitzpatrick), Types in Britain and their Mediterranean origins (S Scheers), Snettisham and Bury (T Gregory), The hoard of Icenian coins from Field Baulk, March (A Chadburn), Decline and Fall of the Icenian monetary system (J Creighton), Iron Age coins in Yorkshire (J May), Earliest gold coinages of the Corieltauvi (J May), Coinage and archaeology (C Haselgrove), Money supply and credit (R D van Arsdell), Iconography (M Green), Petit numeraire de billon dans l' Ouest de la Gaule (K Gruel and A Taccoen), Coins in the Auvergne (F Malacher and J Collins), Analytical survey of the British Celtic gold (M Cowell), Material issues (P Northover).

The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. The Celtic World draws together material from all over pagan Celtic Europe and includes contributions from British, European and American scholars. Much of the material is new research which is previously unpublished. The book addresses some important issues - Who were the ancient Celts? Can we speak of them as the first Europeans? In what form does the Celtic identity exist today and how does this relate to the ancient Celts? For anyone interested in the Celts, and for students and academics alike, The Celtic World will be a valuable resource and a fascinating read.

Aims to move away from describing the coins to giving some historical explanation, to integrate the coinage of the eastern Provinces traditionally abandoned to the last chapter of books on Greek coins to treat coins as economic objects, by explining both how and why they circulated and how they can illuminate economic history.