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Tetradrachm Liegendem Achter Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Celticised laureate and bearded male head facing left, rendered in a highly stylised barbaric idiom derived from Macedonian prototypes. The hair is articulated with distinctive S-shaped curvilinear forms characteristic of La Tène Celtic artistic convention. The facial features are boldly modelled with pronounced plastic relief, exhibiting the abstracted, vigorous stylisation typical of Eastern European Celtic coinage of the 3rd century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Liegendem Achter" — lying figure-eight — type belongs to a poorly understood cluster of imitative Celtic silver coinage derived ultimately from Macedonian prototypes, most likely Philip II tetradrachms filtered through successive regional copying. The issuing group remains unattributed to any specific tribe with confidence, which itself reflects how fragmented Celtic monetary production was across the Carpathian basin during this century.
The Kostial and Göbl references place this piece within a narrow die-linked variant group, the "var." notation signaling it deviates from the closest parallel — likely in the figure-eight rendering itself, where individual die cutters introduced idiosyncratic distortions as the prototype receded further from living memory.