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Tetradrachm Audoleon/Vogelreiter Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Celticized male head facing right, derived from the Macedonian prototype of Zeus or a Macedonian king, rendered in a stylized barbarian manner. The hair is elaborately depicted with large, deeply engraved leaf-shaped locks radiating from the crown, filling the entire field behind the head. The beard is similarly stylized with bold, curved strands. Pellet ornaments appear in the field adjacent to the face, a characteristic Celtic decorative motif. No legend is present, consistent with the uninscribed tradition of Eastern European Celtic coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Audoleon/Vogelreiter type takes its name from a Paeonian king active around 315–285 BC, though the connection is typological rather than attributional — Celtic die-cutters in the eastern Balkans borrowed and progressively abstracted Macedonian prototypes, and Audoleon's coinage circulated widely enough in the region to serve as one such model. The issuing group remains unlocalized with confidence; finds scatter across the Carpathian basin and the middle Danube corridor without clustering tightly enough to pin to a single tribe.