Drachm Simmering and Réte Type

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.