Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/8 Stater
| Issuer | Boii |
|---|---|
| Year | 100 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1/8 Stater (2.5) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Stylized Celtic face rendered in high relief against a plain convex field, executed in the abstracted La Tène artistic tradition. The facial features are reduced to essential geometric elements: a prominent central pellet eye surmounted by a bold, arc-shaped brow rendered as a raised crescent, flanked by two curved horn- or scroll-like projections extending to either side. The overall composition is highly schematic, reflecting the characteristic Celtic transformation of Hellenistic portraiture into abstract curvilinear design. No legends or inscriptions are present. The flan is irregular and slightly scyphate, typical of the hand-struck Boian coinage of this period. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Deeply concave reverse field displaying a stylized fan- or palm-frond motif rendered in incuse, with multiple radiating striated lines emanating from a common base point at the lower center of the flan, spreading outward and upward in a manner evoking a spray of grain or leaf fronds. A single raised pellet is positioned in the upper right of the field. The design is entirely aniconic and devoid of legend, consistent with Boian electrum and gold fractional coinage of the late La Tène period. The flan edges are irregular with characteristic hammered flange distortion. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 50 BC) |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |