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Drachm Tótfalu Type
| Issuer | Boii |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse description | Beardless male head facing right, rendered in a schematised Celtic style, positioned in the left field. A laurel wreath runs upward between two parallel pearl-strands, framing the composition. The facial features are reduced to abstract linear forms characteristic of late La Tène Celtic coinage, with pellet detailing accentuating the eye and hair. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, consistent with hand-struck Celtic silver issues of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Boii were expelled from their Bohemian heartland by the Germanic Marcomanni around 50 BC, a displacement that effectively ended large-scale tribal coinage production in the region. The Tótfalu type belongs to a fragmented late series struck as the tribe's political coherence was collapsing — which explains the considerable die-to-die variation cataloged across the Kostial and Göbl Kelt references. Specimens attributed to this type surface most frequently in Hungarian find contexts, reflecting where remnant Boian populations settled after the expulsion.