Hexadrachm Iantumarus Type

The Boii were driven from their Pannonian territories by the Dacians under Burebista around 60–50 BC, a catastrophic displacement that effectively ended their capacity as an organized political entity in central Europe. Coinage attributed to the "Iantumarus" type almost certainly belongs to this late, compressed phase of Boian output — struck by a people already in the process of dissolution. The type name derives from a Celtic personal name read from die inscriptions, one of the few instances where a Boian moneyer or chieftain can be tentatively identified by name rather than typology alone.