While the first European (non-classical) coinage appears in southeastern Europe in the

late 4th century BC with the development and evolution of Celtic issues based on

Hellenistic prototypes, it is not until relatively late – mid. 2nd c. BC – that the first

coinage emerges in Britain. The earliest coins recorded in southern England are known

as the Gallo-Belgic A type, and the first examples were actually minted in the area of today’s Belgium or northern Gaul, crossing the channel via trade between the Celtic