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Hexadrachm Biatec Type
| Issuer | Boii |
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| Year | 75 BC - 1 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Kostial#71 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (75 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Biatec-type hexadrachms are among the most technically sophisticated coins produced by any Celtic people north of the Alps. The Boii, a powerful tribe occupying what is now Slovakia and the Czech Republic, struck these large silver pieces in the oppida of the Bratislava area during the final century before their dispersal — a people effectively erased from their homeland by Dacian incursions around 50–40 BC, which makes the tight dating window on surviving dies archaeologically significant.
The name series, of which Biatec is one of roughly a dozen known inscribed types, represents the earliest Celtic coinage to carry Latin-script personal names — likely magistrates or tribal leaders controlling the mint.