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Hexadrachm Nonnos Type
| Issuer | Boii |
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| Year | 75 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | Hexadrachm (6) |
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| Reverse description | Mounted horseman galloping to the right, brandishing a sword in the raised right hand while carrying a branch in the left, a motif evoking martial and symbolic authority. The inscription NONNOS appears between two horizontal lines in the lower exergual area, identifying this as the eponymous Nonnos type of Boian coinage. The entire composition is enclosed within a linear-arch border consistent with the obverse framing. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Boii were expelled from their Bohemian territory by the Dacians under Burebista around 60–50 BC, a catastrophic displacement that effectively ended them as a coherent political entity in central Europe. Coinage attributed to them in this late period was likely struck in the decades immediately preceding that collapse, possibly in the middle Danube region. The Nonnos type takes its name from a find-piece or classification specimen rather than any inscription — these are anonymous strikings, as is the rule for Celtic silver of this region.