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Offline Rugser

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Celtic Ring Money ?
« on: August 24, 2004, 08:30:06 pm »
Hi to all

A question perhaps foolish.

Are these rings of bronze classifiable like Celtic Ring money?

Thank

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Ring # 1 diameter mm 22

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Re:Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2004, 08:31:49 pm »
Ring # 2 diameter mm 28

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Re:Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2004, 08:34:14 pm »
Ring # 3 diameter mm16

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Re:Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2004, 08:35:28 pm »
Ring # 4 diameter mm 35

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Re:Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2004, 02:17:26 pm »
The only classification that I know are descriptive e.g.  metal (gold, silver, bronze) and the number of knobs on the ring.  While yours is smooth, many have knobs which was probably an indication of relative value.  I'll attach some examples.
Regards, Bob Porter

Silver with three knobs:

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Re:Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2004, 02:28:04 pm »
25 knobbed bronze

aureum

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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2005, 09:06:51 am »
hello

see my homepage

http://members.home.nl/lngoressen/index.htm

please send my your photo's of ring money or Rouelle's and I wil put them on my homepage.

thanks

mvg aureum


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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2005, 09:19:41 am »
what about these 3?     authentic?  i want a part of the celtic past :D  and a good price for $10?

andrew

Nico Creces

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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2005, 11:32:33 am »
Andrew, it looks like a good deal to me. If you can win this for $10, that means about $3 for 1 piece. I must say, many celtic coin collectors and pro's (like Chris Rudd from UK) do suggest that those rings aren't in fact money, but that they are cult objects instead.
So there are different opinons about it. But one way or the other, for $10 you could own a marvellous piece of ancient european history.
Grtz ;),
Nico

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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2005, 11:35:41 pm »
well nico, i did win a piece of celtic ring money  :D .  here is the link, and below is a pic. 

andrew

Nico Creces

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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2005, 08:28:01 am »
Hello Andrew,
good job ;).
It's a bargain for that price.
I deleted the link to ebay, you know ;).
Congrats,
Nico

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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2005, 02:29:06 pm »
Celtic rouelles... I find them sooo beautifull....

Below example comes from the collection of a famous Dutch collectionneur:


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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2005, 04:40:37 pm »
wow!  ive never seen those before! nice!

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Re: Celtic Ring Money ?
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2005, 04:20:26 pm »
The 'knobby' rings and spoked wheels seem all to come from Gaul. The plain rings are more often found in present day Belgium and Southern Netherlands. As far as I know they don't occur in Germany. Decorated rouelles are nearly always cast, the heavy rings too, but the small rings were cut out of copper plate.

Frans

 

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