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Drachm Tótfalu Type
| Issuer | Boii of Southern Slovakia and Northern Hungary |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Stylised bearded male head facing right, rendered in the La Tène Celtic artistic tradition with abstracted facial features. A laurel wreath, depicted descending downward, is flanked on either side by a border of pearl-strands. The head is positioned in the left field, with the wreath elements occupying the central and right portions of the die. The overall treatment reflects the characteristic degeneration of Hellenistic prototypes into Celtic abstract design. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Boii were expelled from Bohemia by the Germanic Marcomanni around 50–60 BC, after which surviving groups dispersed into the Danube basin — the "Southern Slovakia and Northern Hungary" attribution reflects precisely this refugee population, minting in diminished but persistent tribal tradition. The Tótfalu type belongs to the late phase of Boian coinage, when flan preparation had grown irregular and silver content was declining, symptoms of a polity under sustained pressure rather than settled production.