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Tetradrachm Baumreiter Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Weight | 13.91 g |
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| Reverse description | A rider on horseback proceeding to the left, depicted in the highly stylised manner characteristic of the Baumreiter ('tree-rider') type. The horse is rendered with boldly modelled, rounded forms, its body shown in profile with legs in motion. The rider holds aloft a leafless branch or small stylised tree, visible above the horse's back, accompanied by scattered pellets and a small branch motif in the upper field. The composition retains the essential elements of the Macedonian cavalry prototype while transforming them into the abstract, decorative vocabulary of Eastern Celtic art, with pellets used as space-filling ornaments throughout the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Baumreiter" designation — German for "tree rider" — was coined by modern researchers to group a cluster of related Celtic silver struck in the Middle Danube region during the third century BC, when Celtic tribes dominated the arc from Bohemia through the Carpathian basin. Attribution to a specific tribe remains impossible; the eastern Celtic coinages of this zone were produced by multiple groups operating without centralized mint infrastructure, likely by itinerant die-cutters serving different chieftains across generations.
The Kostial and Göbl references place this piece within a recognized die family, but the "var." notation signals it departs from the closest parallel — worth noting for anyone working the series systematically.