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Tetradrachm Kapostal Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Celticized effigy of a laureate and bearded head, derived from the Macedonian Zeus type, facing right. The hair is rendered in stylised, schematic striations characteristic of Celtic artistic interpretation, with the laurel wreath reduced to a series of abstract leaf forms and pellets. The beard is depicted as a cluster of granular bosses below the chin. A border of pellets runs along the coin's periphery, further emphasising the Celtic abstraction of the original Hellenistic prototype. |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylised Celtic horseman advancing to the left, the rider's body reduced to a schematic, almost geometric form with limbs rendered as abstract appendages. The horse is depicted in a similarly abstracted manner, its body a compact mass with simplified legs in motion. A horizontal figure-of-eight symbol appears below the horse, a distinctive diagnostic element of the Kapostal type. Scattered pellets and curvilinear motifs fill the field, reflecting the characteristic La Tène decorative vocabulary applied to the Macedonian equestrian prototype. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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