Les monnaies d'argent du Centre-Ouest de la Gaule. Premiers résultats d'analyses

Abstract

Summary. - We present here the first results of a work following an interdisciplinary study of the gold issues from Gaul's Atlantic front. Using neutron activation analysis we determined the composition of more than one hundred of Gallic west-center silver coins. It allows us to begin to precise their structure and relative chronology as well as to study the relation between gold and silver and the alteration techniques used by the manufactors of the silver coins.

Potentialities of X-ray fluorescence analysis in numismatics: the case study of pre-Roman coins from Cisalpine Gaul

“…The use of tin in silver coin is not limited to Cisalpine coins, but can be found in other Celtic coinages, e.g. those (Sarthre 1996) from the Atlantic Gaul (drachmas "au cavalier ailé") and those (Thompson 1972) from the Armorican peninsula (drachmas with the "boar mint mark"). In both these cases, authors consider the presence of tin due to the use of scrap, recycled bronze objects.…”