CELTIC TRIBE of EASTERN Europe 200-100BC Ancient Silver Greek -Like Coin i57626

Description

Item:
i57626
Authentic Ancient  Coin of:
Celtic Tribe of Eastern Europe
Silver 16mm (2.43 grams)
circa 200-100 B.C.
Head of female right.
Cista with serpent peering out.
* Numismatic Note: The Celtic  peoples would issue their own versions of the coins of their neighbors, such as  the Greeks which have their own unique style to behold. Quality ancient Celtic  coin.
You  can see the Celtic style showing on this coin along with the blundered Greek  legend.
You are bidding on the exact item pictured,  provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of  Authenticity.
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The Celts
(pronounced
/ˈkɛlts/
or /ˈsɛlts/, see
Celtic
pronunciation of
)  were a diverse group of
tribal societies
in
Iron Age
and
Roman-era
Europe
who spoke
Celtic languages
.
Diachronic distribution of Celtic peoples:
core Hallstatt territory, by the 6th century BC
maximal Celtic expansion, by 275 BC
Lusitanian  area of Iberia where Celtic presence is uncertain
the "six Celtic nations" which retained significant numbers of Celtic  speakers into the Early Modern period
areas where Celtic languages remain widely spoken today
The earliest archaeological culture commonly accepted as Celtic, or rather
Proto-Celtic
, was the
central European
Hallstatt culture
(c. 800-450 BC), named for  the rich grave finds in
Hallstatt
, Austria. By the later
La Tène
period (c. 450 BC up to the Roman  conquest), this Celtic culture had expanded over a wide range of regions,  whether by
diffusion
or
migration
: to the
British Isles
(
Insular  Celts
), the
Iberian Peninsula
(
Celtiberians
,
Celtici
and
Gallaeci
), much of
Central Europe
, (
Gauls
)  and following the
Gallic invasion of the Balkans
in 279 BC as far  east as central
Anatolia
(
Galatians
).
The earliest directly attested examples of a Celtic language are the
Lepontic
inscriptions, beginning from the 6th  century BC.
Continental Celtic languages
are attested only  in inscriptions and place-names.
Insular Celtic
is attested from about the 4th  century AD in
ogham inscriptions
, although it is clearly much  earlier. Literary tradition begins with
Old Irish
from about the 8th century. Coherent  texts of
Early Irish literature
, such as the
Táin Bó Cúailnge
(
The Cattle Raid of  Cooley
), survive in 12th-century recensions. According to the theory of
John T. Koch
and others, the
Tartessian language
may have been the earliest  directly attested Celtic language with the Tartessian written script used in the  inscriptions based on a version of a Phoenician script in use around 825 BC.
By mid 1st millennium AD, following the expansion of the
Roman Empire
and the
Great Migrations
(
Migration  Period
) of
Germanic peoples
, Celtic culture and
Insular Celtic
had become restricted to
Ireland
and to the western and northern parts  of
Great Britain
(
Wales
,
Scotland
,
Cornwall
and the
Isle of Man
) and northern
France
(
Brittany
).  The
Continental Celtic languages
ceased to be  widely used by the 6th century.
Insular Celtic culture diversified into that of the
Gaels
(
Irish
,
Scottish
and
Manx
), the
Brythonic
Celts (
Welsh
,
Cornish
, and
Bretons
) of the medieval and modern periods. A  modern "
Celtic  identity
" was constructed in the context of the Romanticist
Celtic Revival
in Great Britain (Wales,  Scotland, Cornwall and the Isle of Man) and Ireland. In France a similar revival  of
Breton
is taking place in
Brittany
.
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