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Tetradrachm Kapostal Type

Issuer Hercuniates
Year 200 BC - 1 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (200 BC - 1 BC)
Additional information

The Hercuniates occupied the territory around the Dráva river basin in what is now southern Hungary and northern Croatia — a region the Romans would later organize as part of Pannonia. The Kapostal type takes its name from the Hungarian find site where a significant hoard concentration established the type's geographic anchor. Celtic silver coinage in this zone was struck not as royal propaganda but as a functional medium for inter-tribal exchange and mercenary payment, almost certainly connected to the broader Balkanic Celtic military presence of the late Iron Age.

Göbl's die study places this type within a relatively compressed production window despite the catalog's wide date range.

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