Celtic Danube Eastern Europe 6-2CentBC Ring Wheel Money Triskeles "Coin" i44442

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Item: i44442   Authentic Ancient

Eastern Europe Celtic Danube Region Bronze "Ring or Wheel or Roulles" Proto-money Trading Token of Triskeles Shape 35mm x 10mm (2.92 grams) Circa 500-100 B.C.

The ancient Celts proto-money trading tokens like this to conduct trades before the introduction of coins to the area and perhaps even afterwards.

This is a type I have never seen before in the Triskeles shape.

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A triskelion or triskele (which invariably has rotational symmetry ) is a motif consisting of three interlocked spirals , three bent human legs, or three bent/curved lines extending from the center of the symbol. Both words are from Greek "τρισκέλιον" (triskelion ) or "τρισκελής" (triskeles ), "three-legged", from prefix "τρι-" (tri- ), "three times" + "σκέλος" (skelos ), "leg". Although it appears in many places and periods including 3200 BCE Newgrange , it is especially characteristic of the Celtic art of the La Tène culture of the European Iron Age .

A triskelion is the symbol of Sicily , where it is called trinacria , as well as of the Isle of Man , Brittany , and the town of Füssen in Germany.

Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age use in Europe   Ancient greek beaked jug decorated with triple spirals   Rhine Celts, electrum 'regenboogschoteltje' or rainbow cup with triskele   The flag of Sicily , featuring the triskelion symbol revived by Joachim Murat   The flag of the Isle of Man , is composed solely of a triskele against a red background   Flag of Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug

The triskelion symbol appears in many early cultures, the first in Malta and in the astronomical calendar at the famous megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland built around 3200 BC, Mycenaean vessels, on coinage in Lycia , and on staters of Pamphylia (at Aspendos , 370–333 BC) and Pisidia . It appears as a heraldic emblem on warriors' shields depicted on Greek pottery.

Familiar as an ancient symbol of Sicily , the symbol dates back to when Sicily was part of Magna Graecia , the colonial extension of Greece beyond the Aegean .[8] Pliny the Elder attributes the origin of the triskelion of Sicily to the triangular form of the island, the ancient Trinacria (from the Greek tri- (three) and akra (end, limb)), which consists of three large capes equidistant from each other, pointing in their respective directions, the names of which were Pelorus , Pachynus , and Lilybæum .[citation needed ]

The Celtic symbol of three conjoined spirals may have had triple significance similar to the imagery that lies behind the triskelion. The triple spiral motif is a Neolithic symbol in Western Europe. It is considered a Celtic symbol but is in fact a pre-Celtic symbol. It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in County Meath , Ireland . Newgrange , which was built around 3200 BC, predating the Celtic arrival in Ireland but has long since been incorporated into Celtic culture.


Area Where the Danube Area Celts would have been located

The Danube is a river in Central Europe , the European Union 's longest and the continent 's second longest (after the Volga ).

Classified as an international waterway , it originates in the town of Donaueschingen --which is in the Black Forest of Germany--at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg . The Danube then flows southeast for 2,872 km (1,785 mi), passing through four Central European capitals before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine .

Once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire , the river passes through or touches the borders of ten countries: Romania (29.0% of basin area), Hungary (11.6%), Serbia (10.2%), Austria (10.0%), Germany (7.0%), Bulgaria (5.9%), Slovakia (5.9%), Croatia (4.4%), Ukraine (3.8%), and Moldova (1.6%).[1] Its drainage basin extends into nine more.


The Celts or Kelts were an ethnolinguistic group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had a similar culture, although the relationship between the ethnic, linguistic and cultural elements remains uncertain and controversial.

  Diachronic distribution of Celtic peoples:      core Hallstatt territory, by the 6th century BC    maximal Celtic expansion, by 275 BC    Lusitanian area of Iberia where Celtic presence is uncertain    the six Celtic nations which retained significant numbers of Celtic speakers into the Early Modern period    areas where Celtic languages remain widely spoken today

The earliest archaeological culture that may justifiably be considered Proto-Celtic is the Late Bronze Age Urnfield culture of Central Europe, which flourished from around 1200 BC. Their fully Celtic descendants in central Europe were the people of the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (c. 800–450 BC) named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt , Austria. By the later La Tène period (c. 450 BC up to the Roman conquest), this Celtic culture had expanded by diffusion or migration to the British Isles (Insular Celts), France and The Low Countries (Gauls), Bohemia , Poland and much of Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula (Celtiberians, Celtici and Gallaeci ) and northern Italy (Golaseccans and Cisalpine Gauls ) and, following the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC, as far east as central Anatolia (Galatians).

Beginning in 2010, it was tentatively proposed that the language of the Tartessian inscriptions of south Portugal and southwest Spain (dating from the 7th–5th centuries BC) is a Celtic one; however, this interpretation has largely been rejected by the academic community.

The earliest undisputed direct examples of a Celtic language are the Lepontic inscriptions, beginning in the 6th century BC. Continental Celtic languages are attested almost exclusively through inscriptions and place-names. Insular Celtic is attested beginning around the 4th century through ogham inscriptions , although it was clearly being spoken much earlier. Celtic literary tradition begins with Old Irish texts around the 8th century. Coherent texts of Early Irish literature , such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley ), survive in 12th-century recensions.

By the mid 1st millennium AD, with the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Great Migrations (Migration Period) of Germanic peoples , Celtic culture and Insular Celtic had become restricted to Ireland, the western and northern parts of Great Britain (Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall ), the Isle of Man , and Brittany . Between the 5th and 8th centuries, the Celtic-speaking communities in these Atlantic regions emerged as a reasonably cohesive cultural entity. They had a common linguistic, religious, and artistic heritage that distinguished them from the culture of the surrounding polities. By the 6th century, however, the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use.

Insular Celtic culture diversified into that of the Gaels (Irish, Scottish and Manx ) and the Brythonic Celts (Welsh, Cornish , and Bretons ) of the medieval and modern periods. A modern "Celtic identity" was constructed as part of the Romanticist Celtic Revival in Great Britain, Ireland, and other European territories, such as Portugal and Spanish Galicia . Today, Irish , Scottish Gaelic , Welsh , and Breton are still spoken in parts of their historical territories, and Cornish and Manx are undergoing a revival.


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