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well, here's a new bargain bin castulo coin I picked up...not that good but for 6.80 shipped, what the heck. I've been wanting one of these ancient iberian coins anyway..   hey, that's a hair from my dog! has he been into my coins?! anyway... 2nd century bc obv: male head rev: bull, crescent above the guy I got the said is was a "celtic coin of hispaia, (something I can't read), casutlo". do these castulo coins have a celtic link? AND do these go with in my "roman" or "not-roman" ancients box? I'm thinking "not roman"...seems greekish to me.
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The non Roman Celtiberian tribes! Most were quasi-independent vassals of the Dominion of Carthage and later the Romans under Augustus. Kudos to you. I really like this type of coinage. One of the sellers I use often sells lots of these and all seem very different. Some even have a great deal of text!
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the map! check out "celts" on wikipedia  |
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well i'll be darned, I didn't know that. I always associated the celts with ireland/britian...but according the that article those were the last hold out during the time of julius c....the yellow core represents the "original" 6th century bc celts, the sea green maximum expansion of the people.
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Very interesting coin and at a great price.
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I have a few of these and find them very interesting. Kudos to ya. It's always a good day when we learn something new.  |
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Chris, awesome little coin, I know x6 would go nuts over table back ground and hair of the dog...nice pick up....  |
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For less than a packet of cigerettes you can hardly go wrong... interesting coin gratz :) It seems that these are extremly hard to come by in good condition... heres an example up for 140 euro's  Edited by DavidUK
11/20/2012 01:28 am
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Posted 11/19/2012 7:56 pm
