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Greek colonies of Marseilles (Massilia), ca. 323 BCE

Greek coinage in Gaul.

Greek colonies[edit]

Further information: Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul

Trade with Britain[edit]

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Massalia[edit]

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Emporion[edit]

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Other towns[edit]

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Usage in Gaul[edit]

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Celtic imitations[edit]

The gold staters of Macedon, from the reign of king Philip after his acquisition of gold mines of Pangaeum, were circulated very widely in the Greek world. They did manage to get circulated to further area than could have been possible for silver currency. They were circulated even in the Greek colony of Massilia, and through the Massilians they were propagated to Gaul. Massilia's importance as a trading hub in the Western Mediterranean even for the so called "barbarian" nations in the Northern Europe. Through this interaction between Massilia and Gaul the local Gallic people did eventually start to make imitations of these Greek gold coins. These imitations usually contained a portrait of Apollo (or perhaps a young Heracles or Ares) and a chariot drawn by two horses. The imitations gradually got worse as time passed on. By the middle of the second century BC the habit of making imitations of Greek coinage had spread northwards, and the Southern shore of Britain had adopted the same tradition of making distantly related imitations. The first British coins were imitations made from gold. They were also without any inscriptions, though by the time of Caesar's conquest of Britain they bor inscriptions.[9]

The Celtic speaking town of Lattara (modern Lattas) was an important town that was in interaction with the Etruscans, Greeks of Massalia and Romans.[10]

See also[edit]

Reflist[edit]

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  2. ^ Andrew Meadows; Kirsty Shipton (2001). Money and Its Uses in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-19-924012-8.
  3. ^ Dietler, Michael (22 September 2015). "Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France". Univ of California Press. Retrieved 10 May 2019 – via Google Books.
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  6. ^ [4]
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  8. ^ Visonà, Paolo. "Monetary circulation in the south of France from the 6th c. B.C. to the age of Augustus - MICHEL FEUGÈRE et MICHEL PY, DICTIONNAIRE DES MONNAIES DÉCOUVERTES EN GAULE MÉDITERRANÉENNE (530-27 AV. NOTRE ÈRE) (Bibliothèque nationale de France; Editions Monique Mergoil, Montagnac 2011). Pp. 720, 85 maps, heavily illustrated including colour. ISBN 978-2-35518-014-9. EUR. 70". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 26: 775–779. doi:10.1017/S1047759413000767. Retrieved 10 May 2019 – via Cambridge Core.
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  10. ^ Luley, Benjamin P. "Coinage at Lattara. Using archaeological context to understand ancient coins". Archaeological Dialogues. 15 (2): 174–195. doi:10.1017/S1380203808002663. Retrieved 10 May 2019 – via Cambridge Core.

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