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De Kelten kenden geen geldeconomie. Munten in goud, zilver en later ook koper of biljoen werden voornamelijk gebruikt bij de betaling van oorlogsschatting, losgeld, bruidsgiften, offergaven en andere ceremoniële betalingen. Hierdoor is de spreiding van Keltische munten heel beperkt gebleven en worden ze meestal in de omgeving van de muntplaats teruggevonden. http://wiki.muntenenpapiergeld.nl/index.php?title=Keltische_muntslag
This led to a rapid primary distribution of coins across the settlements within the core region where the tournament of value was held. The money may then have been kept for later use within the settlements, or offered in a ritual context in the settlement itself. Coins unearthed by archaeologists excavating rural settlements will thus have been part of ‘unsuccessful’ saving hoards or of ritual depositions. Coins from the savings hoards might then have begun a ‘secondary’ circulation through use in various kinds of payment, especially in the social-ritual sphere. As stated above, the use of coins for market exchange seems less likely because our region lacked any significant market centres. Even if they had existed, this does not mean that money was actually used for payments in the subsistence sphere. A monetary market can exist only if it is supplied regularly with new coins. However, the coins were not minted for this purpose, and it is unlikely that the secondary circulation referred to above possessed enough volume to make possible a monetized market exchange.
