Obol Karlsteiner Art Type

Noricum, the Celtic kingdom occupying roughly modern Austria and parts of Slovenia, developed a distinctive regional coinage tradition well before Roman absorption in 15 BC. The Karlsteiner group represents a late phase of Noric silver production, progressively abstracted from earlier Macedonian prototype influences over generations of local die-cutting. At 0.58g, these obols circulated as the smallest fractional denomination in a system where the larger units have attracted most scholarly attention — leaving the fractional series comparatively understudied.

Kostial's corpus remains the primary reference for systematic attribution of Noric types.