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1/3 Stater Athena-Alkis-Reihe Type
| Issuer | Boii |
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| Year | 200 BC - 101 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Highly schematised Celtic interpretation of Athena Alkis striding to the left, rendered in the abstract La Tène artistic tradition. The figure is composed of globular pellets and elongated raised bars representing the torso and limbs, with a large oval or lunate form to the upper right indicating the shield. A diagonal raised line suggests the spear or lance held in the outstretched arm. Scattered pellets animate the field around the figure, and no legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boii, a Celtic people whose territory stretched across what is now Bohemia and parts of Bavaria, produced coinage primarily to pay mercenaries and facilitate tribal exchange rather than for any centralized fiscal system. This fractional issue belongs to the Athena-Alkis series, a group of Celtic gold coins derived from Macedonian prototypes — likely Philip II or his immediate successors — that circulated widely across the La Tène cultural zone during the second century BC. The stylistic abstraction is progressive across the series; later dies show near-total dissolution of the original Hellenistic forms.