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Tetradrachm Philip III Type
| Uitgever | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Jaar | 300 BC - 101 BC |
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| Valuta | Drachm |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Heavily Celticised and stylistically degraded head of Herakles facing right, derived from the Macedonian prototype of Philip III. The facial features are rendered in a highly abstract Celtic idiom, with the characteristic lionskin headdress reduced to a schematic ornamental motif at the crown. The flan is irregular and slightly cupped, consistent with barbarian hammered coinage of the eastern Celtic tradition. Surface details are worn but sufficient to identify the type. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Celtic copies of the Macedonian tetradrachm of Philip III proliferated across the Danube basin and Carpathian regions for roughly two centuries, produced by tribes who valued the coins as bullion and prestige objects rather than as tools of administered exchange. The prototypes circulated into Celtic territory through mercenary payments — tens of thousands of Celts served in Hellenistic armies from the early third century onward — and local die-cutters progressively abstracted the original imagery across successive generations of copying until the prototype became almost unrecognizable.
Attribution to a specific tribe remains genuinely difficult. The Kostial and Göbl references place this type within a broad eastern grouping, but the minting authority is unknown and may never be resolved.