DESIGNS OF COINS Coins from different times and places will have designs which represent things that are special to that place, people or time. Many Celtic coins were copied from the Greek coinage of Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. On one side of these coins you can see the head of the Greek God of music, Apollo and on the other you will find a horse and a rider; these coins are believed to have been brought to Gaul as payment by returning warriors.
The coins in the Catillon hoard feature abstract versions of this design. The most common and iconic Celtic symbols on the coins are the head (of a Celtic God), the horse, the boar, the Lyre (a stringed musical instrument associated with Apollo), a ‘banner’ symbol or vexillion (war standard) and a wheel (sun).
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