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Tetradrachm Birnenscheitel 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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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 201 BC) |
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The "Birnenscheitel" designation — German for "pear-shaped crown" — refers to a specific hair rendering that defines this die grouping, though the issuing tribe remains unattributed with any confidence. Celtic silver coinage of this region derived ultimately from Macedonian prototypes absorbed during Philip II's campaigns along the Danube frontier in the 340s BC, passed through multiple generations of stylistic abstraction until the original source was nearly unrecognizable.
Kostial 396 places this type within a broad eastern group, but provenances for these pieces are almost entirely undocumented — most entered collections through the Balkan antiquities trade in the 1980s and 1990s.