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Tetradrachm Congesa Type
| Issuer | West Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Reverse description | A horseman advancing to the left, depicted in the dynamic La Tène Celtic style with the rider seated upon a galloping horse whose flowing tail and legs are rendered with pronounced stylization. A pellet-in-annulet symbol occupies the upper field above the horse. The exergue bears the inscription CONGESA in bold Latin letters, identifying this issue as the named Congesa type of the West Norican series. The flan edges show characteristic hammered irregularity with minor flan cracks. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONGESA |
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West Noricum occupied the eastern Alps and the upper Drava basin, a region that served as a significant transit zone between the Mediterranean world and the Danube frontier. The "Congesa" classification groups a cluster of dies sharing specific degeneration patterns in the head type, a sequence documented by Kostial that helps trace the stylistic drift common to late La Tène Celtic coinage as Romanization gradually pressured local minting traditions.
Production likely ceased well before the formal incorporation of Noricum into the Roman provincial system around 15 BC.