Tetradrachm Buckelavers Type

The Cotini were a Celtic people settled in the upper Váh and Hron river valleys of what is now Slovakia, a group unusual enough that Tacitus later singled them out — with some contempt — for mining iron for their Germanic and Sarmatian neighbors rather than using it to arm themselves. Their coinage belongs to the broader Mitteleuropäische tradition of Celtic silver but retains enough regional idiosyncrasy to be attributed with confidence. The "Buckelavers" designation refers to a specific die-linked group within Göbl's classification, distinguished by the characteristic boss arrangements that give the type its name.