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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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| Weight | 2.20 g |
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| Obverse description | Central Y-form motif rendered in bold relief, its bifurcating upper arms and single descending stem occupying the principal field. Flanking each lateral arm is a large annulet enclosing a pellet, the whole composition executed in the highly abstracted La Tène artistic tradition. Additional curvilinear elements and pellets fill the surrounding field, giving the design a dynamic, almost symmetrical quality. The flan is irregularly shaped and shows typical hammer-struck fabric with no inscription or legend. |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic horse depicted in left-facing profile, rendered in the characteristic La Tène abstract manner with exaggerated body musculature and a heavily schematised head with prominent curvilinear neck. The legs are reduced to bold, almost geometric strokes, with terminal pellets suggesting hooves. A group of pellets appears in the lower right field, serving as a subsidiary decorative or symbolic element. The field is otherwise plain, and the coin bears no legend or inscription. |
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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.