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Tetradrachm Imitation of Tetradrachm of Philip II of Macedon
| Issuer | Dacians of Moldavia |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized and abstracted effigy of Zeus in left profile, derived from the Macedonian prototype of Philip II tetradrachms. The laureate head is rendered in a distinctly Celtic-Dacian artistic idiom, with the facial features — eye, nose, and chin — reduced to bold, schematic relief forms. The laurel wreath is suggested by a sweeping curved mass behind the head rather than individual leaves. The flan is irregular, and the die is slightly off-center, characteristic of barbarous imitative coinage of this series. |
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| Reverse description | Stylized horseman riding right, derived from the youth-on-horseback reverse type of the Philip II tetradrachm prototype, rendered in a pronounced Dacian-Celtic abstract style. The rider's body is highly schematized, with exaggerated limbs and a rounded, bulbous torso, seated upon a horse whose anatomy is similarly distorted into bold, curvilinear forms. A border of large globules frames the design, replacing the original linear groundline and legend. Subsidiary symbols appear in the field, including abstract linear motifs below the horse, reflecting the progressive barbarization of the Macedonian prototype across successive generations of Celtic-Dacian coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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