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Tetradrachm Nemet Type
| Issuer | West Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Diademed male head facing left, rendered in the stylized Celtic artistic tradition derived from Hellenistic prototypes. The diadem is elaborately decorated with a prominent leaf or feather motif rising above the crown, surrounded by a beaded border encircling the coin's periphery. The facial features are abstracted in characteristic La Tène style, with a prominent nose and simplified profile. Small pellets appear in the left field, serving as decorative fill elements typical of Norican Celtic coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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West Noricum occupied a strategically critical corridor through the eastern Alps, and its Celtic tribes developed coinage traditions that blended Macedonian prototypes with increasingly abstracted local styles over several generations of die-cutters. The Nemet type specifically takes its name from a sacred nemeton — a Celtic ritual enclosure — suggesting the coins may have carried religious as well as transactional weight within the community.
Kostial 135 is among the better-documented varieties in the West Norican sequence, but the two-century span assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty about internal chronology rather than careless dating.