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Tetradrachm Roman Numerals Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A rider on horseback galloping to the left, rendered in the schematised Celtic style typical of Eastern European imitative coinage. The horse bears an annulet motif at its snout, and a solar or floral symbol appears below the horse in the lower field. Three pellets are positioned before the horse, and the group of symbols III-III appears above, interpreted as a pseudo-legend or decorative numeral motif. The overall composition reflects the progressive Celticisation of Macedonian royal equestrian reverse types. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Roman Numerals" type takes its name from the markings on the coin that were initially misread as Latin numerals — a reminder that early Celtic numismatic classification was often done by scholars more familiar with classical coinage than with La Tène iconographic conventions. Attribution to a specific tribe remains unresolved; the broader group of imitative Macedonian-style tetradrachms from the Carpathian basin was produced across dozens of communities whose political boundaries we cannot reliably reconstruct. Göbl's plating of this type in the Keltische Münzen corpus placed it within a stylistic cluster suggesting production somewhere in the middle Danube region.