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1 Stater

Issuer Boii of Bohemia
Year 200 BC - 1 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (200 BC - 1 BC)
Additional information

The Boii were expelled from northern Italy by Roman military pressure in the early 2nd century BC and resettled in the region Romans called Boiohaemum — modern Bohemia. Their gold staters descend typologically from Macedonian prototypes, specifically Philip II issues that entered Celtic hands through mercenary service and trade, then underwent progressive stylistic abstraction over generations of local die-cutting.

No mint infrastructure in any Roman sense existed. Production was decentralized, likely controlled at the tribal or sub-tribal level, which accounts for the wide die variation and inconsistent flan preparation seen across the type.