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Tetradrachm Audoleon Type

Issuer Uncertain Eastern European Celts
Year 300 BC - 201 BC
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Weight 13.09 g
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Reverse script Greek
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Mintage ND (300 BC - 201 BC)
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The "Audoleon type" name derives from the Paeonian king Audoleon, whose own Philip II-derived tetradrachms likely served as the direct prototype for this Celtic imitative series. The actual issuers remain unidentified — attribution to "eastern European Celts" is a geographic inference drawn from find-spot concentrations in the middle Danube region rather than from any documentary record. Celtic coinages of this class were not struck to honor or acknowledge Audoleon; they simply copied what was available and commercially trusted.

Die links across specimens suggest organized, if episodic, production rather than opportunistic one-off striking.

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