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Obol Manching 2 Type
| Issuer | Vindelici of Germania |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylized and abstracted design in the Celtic La Tène tradition, depicting a schematic figure or zoomorphic motif — likely a derivative of a horse or rider type — reduced to a series of globular pellets, curved lines, and lenticular lobes arranged symmetrically across the irregular flan. Multiple raised pellets are distributed throughout the field, a hallmark of the Manching type coinage. The surface exhibits the characteristic textured granularity of hammered Celtic silver, with no inscription or legend present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Vindelici operated across the Bavarian plateau and surrounding uplands, and their coinage — including fractional silver of this type — was likely produced to facilitate trade at major oppida, Manching chief among them. Manching itself was one of the largest Celtic settlements north of the Alps, with excavations yielding tens of thousands of coin fragments, suggesting a mint active over multiple generations rather than a single short issue.
Kostial's corpus remains the primary reference for Vindelician types, and attribution of individual specimens within it can shift depending on die study advances.