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Drachm Simmering and Réte Type
| Issuer | Boii of Southwestern Slovakia |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A highly stylised Celtic horse prancing to the left, rendered in bold, deeply struck relief with a distinctly abstract La Tène artistic idiom. The body of the horse is formed from flowing, curved lines with pellet-tipped limbs clearly visible beneath the torso, and a sweeping neck and head oriented to the left. A prominent annulet with a small central pellet is positioned above the horse's back in the upper field, serving as a characteristic identifying symbol of this type. The composition fills the flan dynamically, with no inscription or legend present. The overall style reflects the advanced schematisation typical of Boian silver coinage of the late La Tène period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boii were expelled from their Bohemian homeland by the Marcomanni around 50–60 BC, forcing a dispersal southward into the Pannonian basin. This drachm type belongs to the residual coinage tradition that persisted among Boian communities in what is now southwestern Slovakia well after that displacement — a monetary system continuing almost by inertia, stripped of the political structures that originally sustained it. The Simmering and Réte classification distinguishes regional die groups within a broader Boian series, the typology worked out largely through hoard evidence from the Danube corridor.