1/3 Stater Athena-Alkis-Reihe Type

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.