Celtic/Barbarian Coins

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   ON JUNE 8, 793, A BAND of Norse raiders sacked Lindisfarne, a monastery on the...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   ...he sick promenade while the doctors lie abed, the baths freeze while the houses burn, the living are thirsty...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in...

Visigoths in Spain by Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   ...he history of the Visigothic kingdom is one long struggle between the nobility and the monarchy....

By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ......   Celtic Coins minted roughly 2,000 years ago by tribes in Britain's ancient past are unearthed every so often in...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz ....   COINAGE IS CONSERVATIVE. IF a denizen of ancient Rome picked up a modern American dime, he would...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   MOST PEOPLE WHO are not medievalists would be hard pressed to name one thing that happened between the years...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   Aren’t they very expensive? Along with How do you know they’re authentic?, this is probably the most common question that...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS, the Norman conquest of England in 1066 is one of the most memorized events in Western...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   The Franks had little idea of the state as a public institution, and the regnum Francorum (kingdom of the...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   It has been said that archaeology stands on a foundation of potsherds, and it would be just...

Celtic coins are cultural artifacts to be considered in the scheme of ancient European history   The artistry of ancient Celtic coins is easy to dismiss...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   SOFT, DENSE AND dull, lead is an unattractive coining metal. Lead melts at only 327.5° C (621.5°...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   WHEN ONE HEARS the word "Celtic", one naturally thinks of Ireland (unless one is from Boston, in...

Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas? ...

By Dr. Ursula Kampmann ......   The three March auctions of Gorny & Mosch in Munich cater for all tastes. Anyone with a particular interest in...

Numismatica Genevensis turns Geneva into the centre of Islamic numismatics   By Dr. Ursula Kampmann - CoinsWeekly.com ......   There was great applause when lot number 439 was...

By Dr. Ursula Kampmann - CoinsWeekly.com ......   From ancient coins to magnificent issues from the Middle Ages and Modern Era – Numismatik Lanz is...

Roman silver miliarensis came third in Nation’s Greatest Find contest   A Roman silver coin dug from a field in Bedfordshire by an amateur metal detectorist that...