A coin of Juba I, 60-46 BC, King of Numidia, North Africa, found in southern Lincolnshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/526715 …pic.twitter.com/rsKiGti28X
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A coin of Juba I, 60-46 BC, King of Numidia, North Africa, found in southern Lincolnshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/526715 …pic.twitter.com/rsKiGti28X
A coin of Micipsa, King of Numidia 148–118 BC, found close to the bank of the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/06/the-distribution-of-numidian-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/GLLg6kTAu5
The prehistoric fort of Carn Brea, Cornwall, where a 2ndC BC Numidian coin was found: https://penandpencilgirls.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/redruth-carn-brea.jpeg …pic.twitter.com/T78RDZ0xuu
Late 2nd–1stC BC gold coins also found Carn Brea fort, Cornwall; electrotypes & original on display in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/WmlNSAtJip
A skull of a Barbary ape from N. Africa, dated 390-20 BC & found at Navan Fort, Ireland: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/05/a-barbary-ape-skull-from-navan-fort-co-armagh/ …pic.twitter.com/lPsOymvmNU
More on the Barbary ape from N. Africa that was found in Ireland; poss deposited 250-100 BC: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yibDmGZOeR4C&lpg=PA72&pg=PA72#v=onepage&q&f=true …pic.twitter.com/A9kn0y5TtE
A silver coin of Juba I of Numidia, 60-46 BC, w/ a Neo-Punic legend, found Gaddesby, Leicestershire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/800615 …pic.twitter.com/dZPoWxDUsJ
They were probably brought by traveling salespeople, looking to buy something British. My distant ancestors were Phoenician & they never passed up a place where they could buy & sell.
I'd have no issue with that. Certainly Cornish tin is found in Scandinavia by c.750, and Cornish gold etc in Germany a millennia earlier, so...!
@caitlinrgreen Loved reading it!
@barbarikon Thanks! :)
@caitlinrgreen My wife is Numidian. She says the coins were probably used to purchase rain.
@virginicus Lol! Well, western Britain definitely has that to spare! ;)
Phoenicians were buying tin from Cornwall.
I think the accumulation of archaeological, linguistic etc evidence suggests that this interpretation is now more credible than it was thought to be a few decades ago :)
Phoenicians would have had base(s) in Cornwall for assaying and factoring the metal. They accepted their own North African coins in payment, and as they were the richest men in the area, these coins became the local currency.
As the technology of bronze smelting spread through Britain, tin trade routes developed from Cornwall, and the North African coins followed these trade routes. Therefore, these coins are a marker for the spread of the Bronze Age in Britain.
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