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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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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylised representation of a laurate wreath rendered in the Celtic La Tène artistic tradition, composed of alternating elongated oval pellets and sinuous, leaf-like curved elements arranged in horizontal registers across the field. A vertical column of rounded pellets lines the left margin, while a series of similar lenticular forms borders the right, together forming the vestigial double border derived from the Greek prototype. The design is entirely aniconic and abstract, with no legend or inscription, reflecting the characteristic Celtic adaptation and progressive schematisation of Hellenistic coin imagery. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boii were expelled from their Bohemian homeland by the Marcomanni around 58–50 BC, scattering remnant groups into the Danube basin. This small silver drachm belongs to the fractional coinage produced by communities navigating that displacement — struck not from the security of an established tribal center but from populations in transition, which partly explains the wide geographic spread of findspots across southwestern Slovakia and the Hungarian plain.
The Simmering and Réte classification reflects two distinct hoard findspots that anchored the typology.