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Drachm Kapostal Type
| Issuer | Hercuniates |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Stylised horse prancing to left, its body rendered with smooth, rounded forms and limbs terminating in pellets; a rider wearing a crested helmet is depicted above, reduced to schematic geometric elements in the Celtic manner. Pellets and annulets are distributed across the field as decorative fillers, and a concave lunate or crescent motif appears below the horse, all consistent with the Kapostal type iconographic tradition. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Hercuniates were a Celtic people settled in the region of Pannonia, between the Danube and the eastern Alps, whose coinage drew heavily from Macedonian prototypes before developing increasingly abstracted local idioms. The Kapostal type represents one of the more regionalized expressions of that process — named after the findspot concentration around Kaposvár in present-day Hungary, where hoards have defined the type's distribution range.
The two-century attribution window reflects genuine uncertainty rather than carelessness; Celtic tribal coinages of this zone resist tight dating, and the typological sequence remains contested among specialists working the Göbl corpus.