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Tetradrachm Dreieckhals Type
| Issuer | Dacians of Transylvania |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Heavily Celticised effigy of Zeus facing right, rendered in bold abstract relief characteristic of Dacian coinage. The laureate head is adorned with a dotted diadem or wreath rendered as a row of pellets arching across the brow. The hair is depicted as a mass of schematic, scale-like or leaf-shaped locks filling the upper field. A large, stylised almond-shaped eye with a central pellet dominates the face, while the beard is suggested by further schematic leaf-form elements in the lower field. The entire portrait reflects the progressive abstraction of the Macedonian prototype, retaining only the essential iconographic elements of the original Philippic tetradrachm tradition. |
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| Reverse description | Heavily abstracted equestrian figure depicted to the left, derived from the Macedonian rider type of Philip II tetradrachms. The horse and rider have been reduced to a schematic arrangement of curved and angular forms, with the horse's body, legs, and the rider's torso rendered as a series of globular pellets, pellet-clusters, and short linear strokes. Prominent large pellets represent the joints and haunches of the horse, while smaller grouped pellets and leaf-shaped elements fill the field around the composition. The characteristic 'Dreieckhals' (triangle-neck) feature is visible in the angular, geometric rendering of the horse's neck. No inscription or legend is present, consistent with the aniconic and non-literate Celtic coinage tradition of the region. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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