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Tetradrachm Schnabelpferd Type
| Issuer | Costoboci |
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| Year | 200 BC - 101 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 101 BC) |
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The Costoboci were a tribal people of the northern Carpathian region whose precise ethnic and linguistic identity remains contested — variously classified as Dacian, Sarmatian, or a distinct group altogether. Their coinage tradition derived from Macedonian prototypes circulating after Philip II's campaigns, but local die-cutters progressively abstracted those models across successive generations until the imagery became largely unrecognizable. The "Schnabelpferd" designation — literally "beak-horse" in German — was assigned by modern scholars to describe the grotesquely stylized animal forms that resulted from this cumulative copying process.
Attribution to the Costoboci specifically rests on find-spot concentrations in the eastern Carpathian basin.