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Drachm Prague type
| Issuer | Boii |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized, abstracted head facing right in the La Tène artistic tradition, rendered in high relief on an irregularly shaped flan. The hair is depicted as a series of large, prominent globules and flowing pellets arranged above and around the facial area. The facial features are schematically rendered, with curved lines suggesting the eye and brow, and the overall design dissolving into abstract Celtic ornamental motifs. The field is uneven and uninscribed, consistent with the hammered production methods of the Boii tribe. |
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| Reverse description | Stylized horse or equine figure advancing to the left, rendered in the characteristic abstract La Tène Celtic style. The body is composed of bold, sweeping curved lines and large pellets or globules representing the limbs, haunches, and torso. Above and below the horse, additional pellets and curved decorative elements fill the field, a hallmark of the Prague-type Boii coinage. The flan is irregular with a slightly crinkled edge, and the design is entirely anepigraphic. |
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The Boii were expelled from their Bohemian homeland by the Marcomanni around 50–60 BC, making the later end of this coin's date range something of a scholarly formality — production almost certainly collapsed with the tribe's displacement. The Prague type takes its name from findspot concentrations around the Bohemian basin, where hoards have provided the bulk of typological study. These are Celtic staters reduced through successive weight debasement to a fraction coinage, the shrinkage in both size and silver content tracking the Boii's increasingly pressured political circumstances across the final century BC.