Stater - Alexander III Kolchis imitation

The Bastarnae occupied a contested zone between the Celtic and Scythian worlds, and their coin production reflects exactly that ambiguity — borrowing the prestige weight standard of Alexander's staters without any serious attempt at fidelity to the original types. These Kolchis-group imitations are named for the Black Sea region where many were found, not minted, and attributing them firmly to the Bastarnae remains a scholarly working hypothesis rather than settled fact.

The two-century date range signals the problem: no ancient source records a Bastarnae mint, and find-spot distribution does most of the attribution work here.