Iron Age Mirrors: A bio- Ancient Celtic Coin Art graphical approach (2010) (2008) by Simon Lilly. Books from Chris Rudd by Jody Joy of the British Exclusively devoted to Museum will delight all Celtic coin design, this Most books in stock, but please allow up to 28 days for delivery. lovers of Celtic art and little pocket book has 58 Postage not included in price. Please phone for a quote. clearly explains the pages bursting with 223 Newly published Britain’s Ancient British Coins grammar of Iron Age drawings, all meticulously referenced by First Coins (2013) by (2010) by Elizabeth ornament. Packed with dozens of amazing tribe and date, and filled with intriguing Elizabeth Cottam and Cottam, Philip de Jersey, mirror drawings 174 pages, card covers, interpretations. This highly original book Chris Rudd is an entirely Chris Rudd & John Sills large-format (30x21cm). £37 discusses coin art from Iron Age Britain, new introduction to Ancient catalogues 999 iron age Gaul and eastern Europe. £5 British coins c.120BC-AD coins, inc 418 new types Brooches in Late Iron Age 45. It contains 300 coin and shows every coin and Roman Britain (2011) Celtic Art From its begin- photos, most greatly twice-size. 256 pages, by Donald Mackreth is a nings to the Book of Kells, enlarged to aid identification. It also tells hardback, 4000 superb photos, plus 500 magnificent monumental (2001 revised and you about the tribes, how to identify the other illustrations, diagrams, tables and differences between the denominations, maps. Never before have so many ancient manual in two volumes expanded edition) by Ruth & Vincent Megaw. shows you the 20 rarest types and British coins been so easy to identify, so inc. more than 2,000 of the illustrates how symbols on coins relate to easy to study and so easy to enjoy. 15,000 brooches Mackreth The definitive introduc- tion to a vast field of symbols on other artefacts. 56 pages. An £75 has catalogued since the 1960s. Well illus- invaluable introduction to the series. European artistic endeavour, discussing trated, big hardback, 2 vols. with CD. 437 £10 Boar Horse (2014) by pages, over 2,000 line drawings. £70 the origin and identity of the Celts and Matthew Rich is a their art, styles and motifs. 497 In Coins and Power in comprehensive catalogue Caesar’s Druids (2010) by illustrations, 24 in colour. £20 Late Iron Age Britain of uninscribed silver coins Miranda Green is highly Exploring the World of (2000) John Creighton minted in Lincolnshire original and utterly the Celts (1993) by combines archaeological, c.60BC-AD10 by the convincing. It ‘provides a Simon James discusses literary and numismatic Corieltavi. 123 types and rich and compelling vision of the full story of the Celts evidence in a fascinating sub types, 230 coin drawings and 37 other a religious elite who chal- from the 7th century BC exploration of the way in illustrations. £15 lenged the power of Rome’ to the Celtic renaissance which rulers bolstered their power through the says Sir Barry Cunliffe. We believe that the in post-Roman times, use of imagery on coins, myths, language Coins of England & the including who the Celts Druids exerted a profound influence on the and material culture. 266 pages, 246 United Kingdom (2015) is imagery of ancient British coins and this were, their lands, their beliefs and the the most authoritative Celts today. 191 pages, over 300 Celtic coins illustrated, 6 maps. £70 book is recommended to anyone who studies annual price guide for illustrations, 59 in colour. £13 or collects them. £25 First published in 1987 Pre-Decimal Issues cov- To make giving easier for the giver and to Coinage in the Celtic World ering every major coin minimise the risk of disappointment on (2004) by Daphne Nash, type - Roman, Anglo- the part of the recipient, we now offer has remained the single best Saxon, Hammered and, of Celtic Gift Vouchers. They can be used reference to the overall course, Iron Age. Plus separate book of for the purchase of coins or books from development of Celtic Decimal Issues. In full colour with over our catalogues and can be purchased for any amount. Please ask for more details. coinage throughout Europe. 450 different types of Ancient British 239 coins are illustrated at actual size & coins fully catalogued and referenced and Chris Rudd, PO Box 222, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6TY. seven maps. Anyone interested in early over 5,000 other UK coins. 536+149 Tel: 01263 735 007 Fax: 01263 731 777 European history will find this book pages. Complete with latest values for E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.celticcoins.com

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It also covers three The 5th edition of la including three excellent chapters on coins. revealing for the first time their full major coin hoards: Wanborough 1984-85, Moneda Hispanica (2008) 352 pages, over 60 b&w plates. £45 designs. Plus 39 distribution maps and a the ‘Bowl hoard’ 1991, and the east (yes, it’s in Spanish) by foldout map of Gaul showing the tribes Leicestershire hoard 2000. 160 pages, Deconstructing the Durotriges Fernando Alvarez Burgos and tribal centres in the time of Caesar. 110 colour pictures. £10 (2008) by Martin Papworth is today’s simplest, most is the first good book about £95 Celtic from the West compact and convenient the Durotriges for 235 (2010) edited by Prof. Sir catalogue of the ancient years. A monumental work If you wish to deepen your Barry Cunliffe and Prof. Iberian and Celtiberian coins of Spain and of great excellence. understanding of Celtic John T.Koch explores the Portugal. More than 2,700 coin drawings, Essential reading if you coins, particularly British theory that Celtic emerged 2,453 coins described in detail, legends want to know more about the folk behind Celtic coins, grab a copy in the Atlantic zone during explained, plus revised valuations for each the coins. 424 pages, 207 pics and maps, of Celtic Coinage: Britain the bronze age. No light- coin. £70 card covers. £72 and Beyond. The papers weight, comic-book milking the same Lords of Battle: The The Search for the are mostly revised Celtic cash-cow, it is a truly World of the Celtic Durotriges (2011) by versions of the talks given revolutionary book; the most radical, Warrior (2007) by Wessex archaeologist at the Eleventh Oxford Symposium on most important and most upsetting book Stephen Allen, eamines Martin Papworth “brings Coinage and Monetary History which of the past decade. Hardback, 384 pages, the Celtic warrior, his together fresh evidence to took place in 1989. 302 pages, card 123 illustrations and maps, most in society and his place suggest that the Durotriges covers, 71 drawings & maps, charts and colour. £40 within it, and the con- nation was made up not of a diagrams. Limited stock. £39 flicts that would eventually destroy his unified state but rather of fiercely The forgery of the world. 24 pages, beautifully illustrated independent baronies”. Card covers, 192 ‘Haselmere hoard’ (1986) with many examples of Celtic artegfacts pages, 61 great illustrations. £17 Fifteen authors, most of by R.D.Van Arsdell is a and craftsmanship. Limited stock - only 2 From the earliest whom presented their slim A4 pamphlet (only copies remaining. £20 uninscribed staters to the reports at the Celtic 14 pages) which could How the Celts Came To coinage of Verica, The coinage conference at one day save you from Britain (2005) by Michael Coinage of the Atrebates Oxford in 2001, cover a making a costly mistake. A Morse reveals how and Regni (2000) by Simon diverse variety of topics Modern fakes of ancient British gold strange linguistic theories Bean is an in-depth study in Celtic Coinage: New staters, made by the Haselmere forger, are first brought the term which should be read by Discoveries, New still circulating. Collectors and dealers are Celtic into use, how anyone interested in the coins of central- Discussion edited by Philip de Jersey. still being fooled by them. With the aid of research into druids and southern Britain in the late Iron Age. 336 295mm x 210mm, card covers, 260 40 enlarged photos, VA tells you how to skulls changed ideas about Celts and how pages, 15 plates. Limited stock. pages, 285 illustrations plus numerous spot the fakes. Out of print, but worth Celtic art was defined. 222 pages, 23 figs. Was £30, now half price £15 tables. £36 every penny. £5 £20 Ancient Coinage of the Professor Wolfgang Hoards, Hounds and The Iron Age in Northern Iberian Peninsula (2011) Meid’s fascinating book Helmets (2012) edited by East Anglia: New Work in is the ultimate reference The Celts, first published its principle author Vicki the Land of the Iceni book for Greek, Punic, in German (2007) is now Score tells us the full, (2012) edited by its co- Iberian and the Roman available in English fascinating story of the author John A Davies, coinages of Spain and (2011). It covers the sixteen hoards and other reports the proceedings of Portugal, including over origins of the Celts; Celtic material excavated at the a conference held in 400 Celtiberian coins. archaeology, society, Claudian conquest-period ritual site at Norwich, 2008. Nine authors, including Magnificent masterwork by Dr Leandre culture, religion; Celtic expansion; Celts in Hallaton, Leicestershire. Well worth numismatists Daphne Nash Briggs, Villaronga and Jaume Benages. Heavy the British Isles; and insular Celtic literary getting for its coin section alone - well Adrian Marsden and John Talbot. 105 hardback, 800 pags, 6 maps, meticulously traditions. Hardback, 184 pages, 24 executed and well illustrated by Ian Leins pages, card-covers, lots of photos, cataloguing over 4,500 different types and illustrations, 12 in colour. £40 of the British Museum. £30 drawings and maps. £24 varieties. Fully illustrated. £150 The Heirs of King Verica The Land of Boudica The Sedgeford Hoard (2010) by Martin Henig (2009) by John Davies (2004) by Megan Dennis Savage goddessess of war, is a revised, revolutionary tells the story of Norfolk and Neil Faulkner, tells you sun-gods, human sacrifice interpretation of British life from the Ice Age and the how it feels to discover a and the other mysteries of first people to the end of in the first millennium AD, hoard of Iron Age gold the Otherworld are just Roman Britain. 256 beginning with Verica’s staters. It is the first book some of the themes fascinating pages, flight and ending with King about hands-on community explored in Celtic Myths featuring gold ‘ring Alfred and Bishop Asser. A real eye- archaeology in action - (1993) by Miranda Green. money’ as well as coins. Beautifully opener. Paperback, 176 pages, 11 images, illustrated with 194 great colour archaeology by the people for the people. 80 pages, 38 wonderful black and white some in colour. £19 pictures, some not seen before. Full of 100 illustrations (30 in colour) including illustrations. Last copy! £9 amazing treasures from the land of the coins, maps and strip cartoons. Easy to Celtic Fire and Roman Rule Iceni. £20 read, hard to put down. £13 Roman Britain is a (1987) by Bruce Robinson Boudica Britannia (2006) Land of the Iceni: The beautifully illustrated and Tony Gregory delights by Miranda Aldhouse- Iron Age in Northern East book by Richard Hobbs the eye with superb Green “offers exciting Anglia (1999) edited by and Ralph Jackson, both drawings by Sue White and new psycological insights John Davies and Tom curators at the British provides an easy-read intro- into the first woman to Williamson gives you the Museum. 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New insights, authoritative introductory provocative review of late varied from region to and new colour illustra- book on this topic by a iron age Britain, pre- and region. 64 pages, colour illustrations by tions (many previously great archaeologist who post-Claudian conquest. Peter Bull, plus photographs and colour unpublished) about the knows what he’s talking Guaranteed to burst blood vessels. £19 maps. £12 famous British rebel leader. 96 pages. £10 about. 64 pages, richly illustrated. £7 Potin Celtes (2005) by Potinmünzen der Kelten Bronze Coins of Gaul Nouvel Atlas des monnaies Hugues Patat is the most (2000) by Andreas (1995) lists over a gauloises: vol I, de la comprehensive and Gäumann is an authorita- thousand bronze and Seine au Rhin is the first colourful catalogue of tive, easy-to-use guide to potin coins and the vast part of a major new refer- Gaulish and British potins. identifying Gaulish and majority of them are ence work by Louis-Pol 64 glossy pages in ring British potins. 36 pages in illustrated. 106 pages, 38 Delestrée and Marcel binder, superb twice-size comb binder, clear plates of coin photos plus Tache that will photos of over 250 types, all in colour, drawings of over 200 types, plus tribal two full-page maps, a seven-page bibli- catalogue all the Celtic plus tribal map. £40 map. £45 ography, a Gaulish site bibliography, a coins of Gaul. 136 pages, over 600 Philip de Jersey investi- Concentrating on the detailed list of 47 major Gaulish hoards, a Gaulish coins illustrated in full colour. gates the development of ceramic and numismatic comprehensive concordance of types and £95 Celtic coinage in Brittany, evidence found in Britain, two helpful indexes. Out of print, limited Nouvel atlas des monnaies Normandy and the Pays de Armorica and Britain stock. £50 gauloises II de la Seine à la Loire in Coinage in Iron (1997) by Cunliffe & de If you wish to increase la Loire moyenne is the Age Armorica (1994). Jersey highlights the your knowledge of the second part of a major new More than just another important links with development of the late reference work that will typological study, this book analyses the Armorica in the Late Iron Age. 117 pages, Iron Age coinage in catalogue all the Celtic geographical and archaeological context maps, reconstructions of ceramic vessels, Britain, you will find it coins of Gaul. 149 pages, of the coins. 266 pages, 152 coin coin photos and a gazetteer of findspots. helpful to study Gaulish 680 Gaulish coins all drawings, 37 maps, 16 tables. Limited Limited stock. Was £16, now half price £8 stock. Was £18, now half price £9 coins. La Tour II (2001) illustrated in full colour. Including Kelten im Osten (1997) by is the premier illustrated reference for slipcase. £95 Celtic Improvisations Michaela Kostial is still the Continental Celtic coins. It contains (2002) by John Hooker is latest and greatest 1,939 magnificent drawings by Léon more than a comprehen- reference book for the gold Dardel, including 198 ancient British Nouvel Atlas des mon- sive catalogue of the 93 and silver coins of central coins. A5 size, fully revised, with better naies gauloises: vol III La types and varieties of and eastern Europe, based quality illustrations. £18 Celtique, du Jura et des Coriosolites staters. It is on the collection of Prof. Alpesà la Facade Hermann Lanz. 192 pages, great photos of atlantique is the third part an art book, history Monnaies XV by Laurent over 1,000 coins, plus two maps. £50 of a major new reference book, archaeology book, Schmitt and Michel Prieur work that will catalogue mythology book and coin book in one. A4 Kelten Geld (2010) is a is a fat little auction all the Celtic coins of Gaul. 176 pages, size, 120 pages, 100s of coin pics. beautiful colour catalogue catalogue of over 1,450 710 coins illustrated in full colour. £95 £29 (in German) of the Celtic coins - mostly Catalogo de Monedas remarkable Celtic collection Gaulish - offered for sale Antiguas de Hispania of Christian Flesche, shown by CGF of Paris in 2002. Nouvel Atlas des monnaies (1979) is in Spanish and at the Staatliche It makes an invaluable gauloises: vol IV, has been an essential Münzsammlung München companion to CGF’s La Tour II because Supplément aux tomes I-II- reference work for and authored by Bernward Ziegaus. every coin is described in detail, fully III (2008) is the fourth part collectors and dealers for British, Gaulish, Iberian, German, referenced, beautifully illustrated and of a major new reference 26 years. 1,277 coins Cisalpine, Danubian and Galatian includes scholarly comments about the work that will catalogue all beautifully illustrated in this auction represented. Coffee-table hardback, 324 people that issued them. Each coin is also the Celtic coins of Gaul. 91 catalogue. Includes map with 141 mint pages, over 1,000 colour photos, plus priced. A5 size, 468 pages, over 1,500 pages, 311 little known coins illustrated in sites, bibliography & prices realised. £35 maps. £100 coin photos, plus enlargements. £35 full colour. £60