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Obol Karlsteiner Art Type
| Issuer | Kingdom of Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Weight | 0.66 g |
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| Reverse description | A horse prancing to the left, rendered in the highly stylised and abstracted manner characteristic of Celtic Norican coinage of the Karlsteiner art type. The body of the horse is depicted in bold, globular relief with exaggerated rounded haunches and cropped limbs, the forelegs raised in motion. A small pellet or annulet device appears to the left of the horse in the field. The flan is irregular and the entire design is executed in the plastic, schematised Celtic idiom, with no inscription or exergual line present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Norican kingdom, centered in what is now Austria and Slovenia, operated as a client state increasingly aligned with Rome throughout the final two centuries BC — yet maintained its own coin production, likely tied to the region's exceptional iron and salt trade wealth. These small fractional pieces circulated alongside Roman denarii in a mixed monetary environment. Kostial's classification of this type reflects decades of effort to organize a series where die links and fabric variations are the primary tools for attribution, official mint records being nonexistent.