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This section has taken a small look at possible interpretations of the art on Celtic coins. The following publications will be useful if you want to know more:
- “Celtic Improvisations: An Art Historical Analysis of Coriosolite Coins” by John Hooker is the definitive book on the Coriosolite coins featuring Ogmios. It has a great section on how Celtic Gods may be represented on coins, and on lunar iconology
- John Creighton’s “Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain” has an excellent section on serial imagery
- “Ancient Celtic Coin Art” by Simon Lilly is a small and inexpensive book that covers all kinds of symbols and their possible meanings
- Robert Van Arsdell has published a number of articles about the imagery on Celtic coins. Look for “Semiotics of Celtic coins” on this page (the other articles are all worth reading as well, as is his entire site)
- “An iconological analysis of British gold staters, c. 80 BC – AD 45” by Justin Claxton is a Ph.D. thesis on the topic.
- “British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum” by Richard Hobbs has an excellent symbol index that lets you look up coins by a particular symbol. It covers the British coins in the British Museum’s Celtic collection, which is quite extensive
The following links are to some very specific topics:
- Articles by Chris Rudd
- “Reading the images on Iron-Age coins” articles by Daphne Nash Briggs
- The Wicker Man on Celtic coins
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