Tetradrachm Macedonian Type

The Boii were a Celtic people whose migrations brought them through the Balkans before settling across what is now Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Lower Austria. Their coinage imitated Macedonian tetradrachms — specifically those of Philip II — not as tribute or trade convenience, but as a functional currency for a society that had absorbed enough Hellenistic commercial contact to understand the weight standard's value. The die-cutters worked increasingly far from the source material with each generation of copying, producing the progressive abstraction characteristic of La Tène-period Celtic coinage.

Pink's classification of this type across references 579–588 reflects genuine die-series distinctions, not curatorial padding.