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Drachm Simmering and Réte Type

Issuer Boii of Southwestern Slovakia
Year 100 BC - 1 BC
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Weight 2.20 g
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (100 BC - 1 BC)
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The Boii occupied much of the middle Danube region until their catastrophic defeat by the Dacians under Burebista around 60–50 BC, an event Strabo described as leaving their territory almost entirely depopulated. Coinage attributed to them from this period was likely produced across several generations of workshops, with the Simmering and Réte classification distinguishing regional die traditions rather than discrete minting authorities — the Boii had no centralized mint in any Roman sense.

Göbl's typology, refined through hoard evidence from Slovakia and Lower Austria, places this type among the final issues before Burebista's campaigns effectively ended Boian political organization in the region.

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