I was curious if there's anyone here collecting this kind of coins.
I do, but I think of them as Thracian coins. I know people have different views about this.
The Thracians dominated, well,
Thrace, the region to the
north and east of
Greece bordering on the Aegean Sea and Black Sea. The
Celts had their own small nation within
Thrace, but only c. 279-211 BC before it was destroyed by the Thracians. The
Dacians occupied lands further from
Greece,
north of the Danube River.
I believe that most of the imitatives that are frequently found in
Bulgaria were minted by the ancient Thracians, who occupied land that is currently
Bulgaria. The
Celts occupied lands further
west in current-day
France, Netherlands,
Britain, and so on.
Celtic coinage, particularly the issues that copied
Philip II coins, differs from Thracian coinage in styling, with the former being fluid, curvilinear, and rubbery and the latter angular, pointillistic, and geometric.
I've acquired what I consider Thracian imitatives of
Alexander the Great style gold, silver, and bronze coins,
Thasos Dionysos and
Herakles tetradrachms,
Mesembria war helmet coins,
Istros inverted heads coins, Parion Medusa/Gorgon
hemidrachm,
Cherronesos lion head hemidrachm, and
Lysimachos Attic helmet bronze. You?