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Tetradrachm Katzenreiter Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Dacian tribes |
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| Year | 200 BC - 101 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Kostial#732, Göbl Kelt#Pl. 36 441A/1, CCCBM 1#Pl. 24 S129, Preda MGD#Pl. 10 9&10 |
| Obverse description | Heavily celticised head of Zeus facing right, derived from a Macedonian prototype, rendered in bold low relief with strongly schematised features. The laureate wreath is depicted as a series of prominent, stylised leaf-shaped pellets arranged around the crown of the head, while a pronounced dotted border frames the entire field. The facial details — eye rendered as a single circular pellet, a bulbous nose, and sweeping curved lines suggesting a beard — reflect the characteristically abstract Dacian artistic tradition. The overall composition displays the progressive geometric transformation typical of late Celto-Dacian coinage of the 2nd century BC. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised equestrian figure, the so-called Katzenreiter, depicted riding to the left in a highly schematised, almost abstract manner. The rider wears a crested helmet rendered as a sweeping curved line above the head, and the horse is reduced to a series of bold curved strokes. Before the horse appears a small quadruped animal, tentatively identified as a feline (cat), which gives this type its distinctive German epithet. The entire composition is executed in the degenerate Celtic style characteristic of Dacian imitations, with all elements reduced to expressive, curvilinear abstract forms. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 101 BC) |
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