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Tetradrachm Adnamati Type
| Issuer | West Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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West Noricum, a Celtic territory straddling the eastern Alps, produced a series of debased Macedonian-style tetradrachms across the late La Tène period, with the Adnamati type among the better-documented regional variants. Kostial 128 places this issue within a broader Noric coinage tradition that absorbed Macedonian weight standards while progressively abstracting the original Hellenistic prototypes beyond recognition over successive die generations.
The name "Adnamati" derives from a Celtic personal name appearing in the coin's inscription — one of the few instances in Noric coinage where an individual is named, though whether this denotes a king, chieftain, or mint authority remains unresolved in the scholarship.