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Tetradrachm Sattelkopfpferd Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 101 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 101 BC) |
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The "Sattelkopfpferd" — literally "saddle-head horse" — designation comes from the distinctively abstracted equine rendering that became increasingly divorced from its Macedonian prototype over successive generations of Celtic die-cutting. These coins descended ultimately from Philip II tetradrachms circulating through the Danube corridor after his campaigns in Thrace, their iconography fragmenting as they moved further from the source and into communities with no interest in preserving Hellenistic naturalism.
Attribution to a specific tribe remains unresolved; the distribution of finds spans a broad arc of the eastern Celtic world, frustrating attempts to pin issuance to a single polity.