1/3 Stater Athena Alkidemos Type

The Boii — a Celtic people who controlled large swaths of what is now Bohemia and Bavaria — struck gold coinage in direct response to contact with Macedonian and later Roman monetary systems, adapting Greek prototypes through successive generations of stylistic abstraction until the original imagery became almost unrecognizable. The Alkidemos type traces back to issues of Philip V of Macedon, filtered through layers of Celtic reinterpretation across decades of transmission.

By the late second century BC, Boian power was collapsing under Roman military pressure, culminating in their defeat at the Battle of the Campi Raudii in 101 BC.