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Tetradrachm Imitation of Tetradrachm of Thasos
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Highly abstracted standing figure derived from the Herakles type of the Thasian tetradrachm, reduced to a schematic stick-like form with splayed legs and a central vertical element topped by a radiate solar or star motif, serving as a stylised rendering of the club (clava) and Nemean lion skin. The figure is flanked on both sides by sweeping branches composed of large globules, imitating the laurel wreath of the prototype. No legend is present, the entire design reflecting the advanced Celtic abstraction of the Hellenistic original into near-geometric imagery. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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These Celtic imitations of Thasian tetradrachms were struck across a broad arc of territory — roughly modern Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia — beginning in the late 2nd century BC and continuing well into the 1st century BC. The prototype itself, Thasos's own heavy tetradrachm, was reissued by the island in enormous quantities after 148 BC specifically to service the Roman wine and slave trade in Thrace, which meant it flooded the region and became the dominant monetary template for local Celtic die-cutters working without direct Greek supervision.
The attribution to "uncertain Eastern European Celts" is not evasion — genuinely no mint site has been pinned to most die groups, and the series fragments across dozens of stylistically distinct but geographically unlocalized workshops.