Obol Magdalensberg Type

Noricum's coinage emerged from a Celtic tribal economy that was, by the late second century BC, sophisticated enough to maintain consistent weight standards across a dispersed mountain kingdom. These tiny silver fractions — among the smallest struck in the Celtic world — were produced in the region around the Magdalensberg, a hilltop settlement in modern Carinthia that functioned as a major trading hub between the Alpine tribes and the Roman world long before formal Roman annexation in 15 BC. The Kostial reference anchors this type within a classification built largely from hoard evidence rather than excavation contexts.