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Drachm Verkehrter Lorbeerkranz Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Celticised laureate and bearded head of Zeus facing left, rendered in the distinctive La Tène artistic idiom. The laureate wreath, of the so-called 'verkehrter Lorbeerkranz' (inverted laurel wreath) type, is depicted with exaggerated, stylised leaf forms splaying prominently above the cranium. The beard and hair are rendered as bold, schematic curvilinear striations, and the eye is represented as a prominent circular pellet. The flan is irregular, with a plain border visible around the periphery. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised warrior stands facing left, holding a shield in the left hand and a sword in the right hand, rendered in a highly abstracted Celtic manner. Before the warrior, two concentric dotted circles occupy the left field, a decorative device characteristic of this coin type. The overall composition displays the bold simplification and geometric reduction typical of Eastern Celtic coinage derived from Macedonian prototypes. No legend or exergual inscription is present. |
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The "Verkehrter Lorbeerkranz" — literally "reversed laurel wreath" — type takes its name from a die cutter's deliberate or accidental inversion of a motif borrowed from Macedonian prototype coinage, most likely derived from issues of Philip II or his immediate successors. Attribution to a specific tribe remains unresolved; the type circulates through scholarship under the broad umbrella of eastern Celtic silver without a secure archaeological findspot distribution narrow enough to pin it to a single group.
Göbl's die study remains the primary framework for sorting these, with Kostial 676 sitting within a tightly defined die cluster.