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Tetradrachm Dachreiter 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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| Reverse description | Stylised equestrian figure advancing to left, the rider depicted wearing a helmet with a short crest rendered in schematic Celtic fashion. A spoked wheel motif appears behind the rider's head and a second wheel or circular device is positioned before the horse's chest, both elements being characteristic iconographic features of the Dachreiter type and likely carrying symbolic or cultic significance. The horse and rider are rendered in the highly abstracted, disjointed style typical of Eastern Celtic coinage of this period, with anatomical forms dissolved into decorative curvilinear elements. The field is plain and devoid of inscription or exergual legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 201 BC) |
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The "Dachreiter" designation — German for "roof rider" — refers to a distinctive abstract figure derived from the rider motif of early Macedonian coinage, so thoroughly transformed through generations of Celtic die-cutting that its origins are only recoverable through comparative typology. These eastern Celtic series proliferated across a broad arc of territory roughly corresponding to modern Slovakia, Hungary, and the upper Danube basin, produced by tribal moneyers whose identity remains unresolved and likely irrelevant to how the coins functioned: as prestige objects and military pay rather than everyday exchange. Attribution to Kostial 456 and Göbl's plate 14 sequence places this piece within a reasonably well-documented die study, though the "uncertain" issuer classification is honest — no single tribal authority has been convincingly assigned this type.