Ancient Celtic Collection, Four Pieces of Currency - c. 800 to 31 BCE - Europe

This collection of four ancient Celtic artifacts includes a silver quinarius, a bronze Celtic imitation of a Greek coin, and two different sizes of Celtic bronze ring money. The quinarius come from Gaul, a region in Western Europe, while the bronze coin and rings come from the Danube River region around modern day Hungary. Each coin comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and has been professionally cleaned and conserved. Celtic Quinarius: These silver coins would have circulated during the Gallic Wars, a war waged by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the nomadic groups inhabiting Gaul, an ancient region consisting of present-day France, Belgium, and parts of the United Kingdom and Germany. Roman forces invaded Gaul in order to expand their territory, and the Celts and other tribes in the area ultimately fell under Roman rule when it became a Roman province in 27 BCE.The design of these coins imitated Roman coinage, as many other early Celtic coins did. As such, it features the