Celtic Iberian Coin of Castulo--Gorgeous Bull,150 BC
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Celtic Iberian Coin of Castulo--Gorgeous Bull,150 BC
For your consideration, a beautiful Celtic Iberian bronze coin (semis) from Castulo, Hispania, minted around 150 BC. It has high relief, great details, and a terrific bull reverse; it measures 18mm and 2.96g--attribution is SNG UK 0902-1365 The obverse has a laureate male bust right, with a fern leaf in the lower right field. The reverse has a classic Celtic bull standing right, head turned to face, with a crescent moon, letter L to its left. Sometime before 500 B.C., Celtic tribes began reaching what is now Ireland and Britain. Anthropologists and geneticists believe that waves of different Celtic tribes migrated to Ireland and Britain over long periods of time. While many tribes came from the European mainland, a large number also migrated from the Iberian Peninsula. | ||||||||||||
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