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Tetradrachm Pi 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 | Celticised laureate and bearded head of Zeus facing right, rendered in the abstracted La Tène artistic tradition derived from Macedonian prototypes. The laureate wreath is boldly rendered with large, stylised olive leaves and berries, its ties falling behind the neck. The facial features are strongly barbarised, with a pronounced brow, deeply set eye rendered as a prominent globe, a broad nose, and a thick, striated beard composed of rounded pellet-like curls. The hair behind the wreath is depicted as flowing, sinuous locks, characteristic of eastern Celtic die-cutting. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The "Pi type" designation comes from the distinctive arrangement of pellets or linear elements beneath the horse on the reverse, read by early catalogers as resembling the Greek letter — a shorthand that stuck despite ongoing disagreement about whether the similarity is intentional or coincidental. These coins circulated across a broad arc of the middle Danube region, where Celtic tribes absorbed and progressively abstracted the Macedonian tetradrachm of Philip II over several generations of die-cutting, each workshop moving further from the prototype.
Attribution to a specific tribe remains unresolved. The Kostial references cover two distinct die groups within this type.