Chapter I
gaulish, british, and pannonian coinages. The readers of these observations may be apprized that they will find a mention of ancient Britain in the following pages, which may be perhaps new to many of them. It may be so but it is only according to the true ancient history of the country, as I have elsewhere shown. The truth must be told. The real ancient history of early Britain is still, even now in the nineteenth century, very much behind hand. What is the fact Why that, since the time of...
Celtic Inscriptions On Gaulish And British Coins
Gaulish, British, and Pannonian coinages . . 1-4 The Gaulish coinage . . . . . ,5-14 The Gaulish coinage continued . . 15-23 The ancient British coinage General style of the inscriptions of Cunobeline, and of those of the Iceni and of the Southern Belgse, and a series of each given . . 24-46 Ancient British coins as objects of art and regarding the fabrication of various counterfeit types in the last century, and in the present one 47-59 The inscription on Cunpbeline's coins. of tascio fibbolg...
CELTIC INSCRIPTIONS ON GAULISH AND BRITISH COINS Cta
Inscriptions on Gaulish coins have frequently a reference to each other which is but little suspected by a casual observer and thus sometimes very important types are identified and explained. Take, for instance, the type inscribed commios carsicios, and that other type reading ciciidv n bri, and on the exergue of the reverse, h pad. Here it is obvious that the two legends are in reality the same. Commios, in Celtic, is chief, and bri is lord and they answer to one another in the two coins for...
Celtic Inscriptions On Gaulish And British Coins 1
Having made the foregoing remarks, I must now go on to say that we must take the inscriptions on the Gaulish and on our British coins at a quantum valeant in both cases. I specify this the more particularly, they being often so concise that they afford us no more than a brief clue, or innuendo, which we can only carry out and apply by an accurate knowledge of ancient Gaul and Britain. They have, too, an evident political bias and application, as we may easily conclude. It strikes me that in...