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Tetradrachm Apollokopf-Dickschrötling Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse description | Stylised Celtic rider on prancing horse moving to right, the figure rendered in highly abstracted form with a large schematic head and simplified body. A wreath motif appears in the upper field above the horse, and a branch or plant element is depicted below. Pellets are visible in the left field near the horse's foreleg, serving as decorative fill elements typical of this series. The entire composition reflects the progressive Celtic stylisation of the Macedonian horseman prototype, with no inscription or legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 201 BC) |
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Celtic coinages derived from Macedonian prototypes were rarely simple copies — each regional workshop introduced progressive stylizations that drifted further from the source with each successive die generation. The Dickschrötling fabric, with its thick, narrow flan, reflects a deliberate minting choice distinct from the broader, thinner flans of contemporary Macedonian production, and is associated with workshops operating in the middle Danube corridor during a period of significant Celtic territorial expansion into the Balkans following the sack of Delphi in 279 BC.
Göbl's classification of this type places it within a tightly defined die series, and cross-referencing with Preda's material confirms a distribution concentrated in modern Romania.