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Drachm Tótfalu Type
| Issuer | Boii of Southern Slovakia and Northern Hungary |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized Celtic horse leaping to the left, executed in the abstracted La Tène artistic manner. A bird or wing motif is depicted on the horse's back, serving as a distinctive type identifier. A single pellet appears beneath the tail. The design is characteristic of Boian coinage derived from earlier Macedonian prototypes, with highly schematized rendering of anatomical forms. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boii who produced this coinage were not the same tribe expelled from Bohemia by the Dacians around 60 BC — this branch had settled the middle Danube region generations earlier and maintained enough political cohesion to sustain a regional silver currency well into the first century BC. The Tótfalu type is named for a find site in present-day Slovakia, and the majority of specimens enter the market through central European hoard dispersals rather than individual site finds.
The century-long date range assigned to this type reflects genuine uncertainty about the sequence of Boian Celtic coinages rather than prolonged production.