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Tetradrachm Samobor A Type
| Issuer | East Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Stylized Celtic male head facing right, rendered in the La Tène artistic tradition with strongly abstracted features. The hair is depicted as a series of large, rounded pellets or bosses arranged in rows, creating a distinctive textured mass above and behind the head. A beaded torque or collar is visible at the neck, and the facial features — eye, nose, and chin — are summarily indicated in the Celtic manner. The surrounding field is plain, with a beaded border partially visible at the coin's periphery. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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East Noricum occupied the eastern Alpine region roughly corresponding to modern Slovenia and parts of Austria, and its Celtic tribes produced coinage in the late La Tène period largely to facilitate trade and mercenary payments rather than any centralized fiscal administration. The Samobor group takes its name from the Croatian town near whose surroundings a significant concentration of these pieces has been found — a distribution pattern suggesting the Kolpa River valley served as a commercial corridor between Norican and Pannonian tribal territories.
Kostial 158 sits within a typological cluster distinguished by progressive abstraction of the prototype, almost certainly a Macedonian or Thasian tetradrachm filtered through several generations of Celtic die-cutters.