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1/2 Stater - Lysimachos Kolchis imitation
| Issuer | Bastarnae Celto-Scythians |
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| Year | 100 BC - 100 AD |
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| Currency | Stater |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 100 AD) |
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The Bastarnae occupied a murky ethnographic position that ancient sources never resolved cleanly — Tacitus debated whether they were Germanic or Sarmatian, and modern scholarship still hedges. Their gold imitations of Lysimachean types persisted for generations after the original Thracian prototypes had ceased circulation, a pattern typical of peripheral peoples who adopted prestigious coinage imagery stripped of its original political meaning. The Kolchis workshop attribution remains contested, with some authorities placing production closer to the lower Danube.