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Tetradrachm Kugelwange Type
| Uitgever | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Jaar | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Vorm | Round (irregular) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Highly stylised Celtic interpretation of a laureate and bearded male head facing right, rendered in the characteristic Kugelwange ('ball-cheek') tradition. The facial features are abstracted into bold curvilinear relief elements, with a prominent rounded cheek mass, sinuous hair locks radiating from the crown, and a schematised laurel wreath indicated by flowing incised lines. The eye is rendered as a raised pellet within a circular surround, typical of Eastern Celtic die-cutting conventions. The overall design reflects the progressive Celtic transformation of the Macedonian prototype, departing significantly from naturalistic portraiture in favour of dynamic, plastic abstraction. |
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| Oplage | ND (300 BC - 201 BC) |
| Aanvullende informatie |
The "Kugelwange" — literally "ball cheek" — designation refers to a specific stylistic degeneration of the Macedonian prototype these coins ultimately derive from, in which the facial anatomy of the obverse type collapsed into a series of rounded, abstract pellets over successive die generations. This is not damage or wear. It is intentional Celtic reinterpretation, each die-cutter working from a copy of a copy until the Hellenistic source became something categorically different.
Attribution to a specific tribe remains unresolved. Eastern Celtic coinages of this period circulated across a broad arc from the middle Danube into the Carpathian basin, and without a documented hoard provenance, pinning Kugelwange pieces to a single issuing group is speculative at best.