Obol Kapostal Type

The Hercuniates were a Celtic tribe occupying territory in the eastern Alpine foothills, broadly within the Norican cultural sphere, and their small silver fractions represent one of the more obscure branches of La Tène-period Celtic coinage. The obol denomination at this weight sits at the practical lower limit of hand-struck silver — nine millimeters of flan leaves almost no margin for a competent strike, and many examples are consequently off-center or weakly defined at the edges through no fault of the dies themselves.

Kostial 830 and Göbl 506/2 place this type within a classification framework that remains contested among specialists working on Pannonian Celtic issues.