This major new work is a classification, die study and discussion of Celtic gold from the arrival of the Philippus in Gaul to the start of the Gallic Wars, with increasing emphasis on north-eastern France and southern Britain. Profusely illustrated with photographs of some 540 different types and varieties, many previously unpublished, and reconstruction drawings of over 200 die pairs, there are plentiful maps, die chains, charts and tables, followed by a catalogue of around 3000 recorded examples and detailed breakdown of 80 hoards. Each of the three main periods of coinage is assessed against its historical and archaeological background before conclusions are drawn about chronology and function. The book will be the standard reference on the series covered for many decades to come, and will help to bring what has hitherto been a relatively neglected area of numismatics into the mainstream of European history.