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.
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.