Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1-1 (May 2009)

Coin use in a dynamic frontier region. Late Iron Age coinages in the Lower Rhine area

Nico Roymans, Joris Aarts

Keywords: Archaeology, Celtic coinage, Lower Rhine region, social use of coins, relation with historically documented tribal dynamics.


Abstract
1 Celtic numismatics as a field of study
2 The Lower Rhine coin database and its research potential
3 Survey of the principal coin groups from the Lower Rhine region
3.1 Imported gold coins (2nd – mid-1st century BC)
3.2 The first Lower Rhine emission: Eburonean triskeles staters (Scheers 31 type, mid-1st century BC)
3.3 Lower Rhine triquetrum staters and the ethnogenesis of the Batavi (c. 50-15 BC)
3.4 Rhineland silver quinarii with ‘dancing manikin’ (Scheers 57 type; c. 65 BC - 1 AD)
3.5 Silver coins with the legend ANNAROVECI (Scheers 58 type) and the ethnogenesis of the Tungri (c. 50-25 BC)
3.6 Bronze AVAVCIA coins and articulation with the Roman monetary system (Scheers 217 type, c. 25 BC-AD 10)
4 Conclusions and discussion
Acknowledgments
Notes
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