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The introduction frames coins as small, richly decorated objects whose magical imagery validates social function, status, identity, and tribal authority. It explains how coinage supported obligations, alliances, territorial influence, and spiritual legitimacy, and contrasts Celtic usage with later Roman administrative areas where taxation and trade shaped both circulation and imagery.","ESSAMESpSASMAMPLsNFPL  \nFirst published 2008This edition ◎ Wooden Books Ltd 2008  \nPublished by Wooden Books Ltd.Glastonbury,Somerset  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataLilly,S.H.Ancient Celtic Coin Art  \nA CIP catalogue record for this bookmay be obtained from the British Library  \nISBN-10:1-904263-65-8  \nISBN-13:978-1-904263-65-4  \nAll rights reserved.  \nFor permission to reproduce any part of thisrich little book please contact the publishers.  \nDesigned and typeset in Glastonbury,UK.  \nPrinted in China on 100%FSCapproved sustainable papers by FSCAtlas Printing Services Limited.  \n代o  \np三呼  \n22正?  \n印  \n52T2  \n1  \nSA  \nD  \nSAP上  \nANCIENT CELTIC  \nCOINART  \nESMP  \nPLEE SANMSAM  \nPLESMSAESAMEMPLE  \nwritten andillustrated throughout by  \nSAMDIE  \nSimon Lilly  \nDedicated to the'men ofskillwho envisaged and created this Iron Age art of magic and power.  \nThanks to John Martineau and Tracey Robinson at Wooden Books for all their hardwork on the image procesing,design and layout ofthis book.For further reading see thecatalogues of Chris Rudd at wwuw.celticoins.com,with dear photographs of coins andlively commentaryfrom many experts in the feld.  \n绝  \nContents  \nIntroductionMoneyHeadsTailsWatchers  \nThe Power of the SunHidden ForcesThe Sacred EnclosureSacred Trees  \nGuardians of the TribeTribal LogosDragons  \nSpells and IncantationsReversals and Hidden ImagesThe Lunar CrescentHidden EyesSigns of the DruidsWands and SceptresTorcsBig Hair  \nA Menagerie of PowerStar PatternsGods and GoddessesThe Long ArmThe Art of TranceConclusionReferences  \n(1  \n2  \n4  \n6  \n8  \n10  \n12  \n14  \n16  \n18  \n20  \n22  \n24  \n26  \n28  \n30  \n32  \n34  \n36  \n38  \n40  \n42  \n44  \n46  \n48  \n5o  \n52  \na.C  \ne.  \nspirit helpers feature greatly in celtic coin art  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nIron Age coins are the least studied artefacts of Celtic art yet areparadoxically one the best sources for learning about pre-ChristianIron Age beliefs.Much Celtic art tends towards abstraction andpattern-making,but in the more figurative and narrative style of coinart,it becomes easier to speculate on possible messages that the artistsand designers intended to convey.  \nMoney is essentially magical,and,when decorated,the imageryis the real source of its power and influence.It is this imagery thattransforms the basic metal discinto a thing that transcends its intrinsicvalue or usefulness as raw material(before the adoption of coinage theIron Age peoples of Britain had‘useful'currency like rings of bronzeor iron bars that could be turned into practical objects).The imageryvalidates the function of the coin by invoking powerful,magicalobjects,beings or events.Each tribe or nation thus reveals its mostimportant beliefs regarding power,status and its sense of identity.  \nIron Age artists took contemporary and ancient examples of coinart and wove in layers of new meaning,transforming and redefiningthe vocabulary.  \nCeltic coins are very small.All their rich and powerful imagery ispacked onto a thin disc often little bigger than a fingernail.Patientand open-minded examination reveals aspects of the Iron Age psychethat we can still see within ourselves today—the dynamics of power,influence,status,identity and belief.  \n1  \n# MONEYthe language of power\n\nIn Iron Age Europe coinage was just one form of disposable wealthalong with other items of precious value like gold jewellery,cattle,weapons,or slaves that a leader was expected to distribute to hisor her entourage or to other tribal leaders,ensuring loyalty andsupport.Celtic Iron Age society was a complex webof obligation andclientage.The higher one's status the larger the number of followersor warriors that had to be maintained.Coins were therefore oftenstruck in response to pressures from outside the tribal group anddistributed to bolster political ambitions.  \nCoin imagery thus tends to focus on the key themes and aspectsof society that preoccupied the educated ruling classes of nobles,knights and druids,such as maintaining or incre","cbCaipHVQmyZeZkb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipHVQmyZeZkb","pdf",3912992,1,64,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Money - the language of power\n## Heads - vessels of power","[{\"question\":\"Why does the book treat Celtic coin imagery as a source of power and belief?\",\"answer\":\"Coins transform a simple metal disc into an object that transcends material value through imagery tied to magical objects, beings, and events. 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