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Tetradrachm Slowakischer Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Central European Celts |
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| Year | 200 BC - 101 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Stylized beardless head facing right, adorned with a pearl diadem rendered as a prominent row of raised pellets sweeping across the crown. The facial features are rendered in the characteristic abstracted Celtic manner, with a schematic eye, rounded cheek, and simplified neck. The hair is depicted as a bold cascade of pellets and flowing locks, reflecting the La Tène artistic tradition of dissolving naturalistic forms into ornamental elements. The field is plain and unlettered. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 101 BC) |
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The "Slowakischer Typ" tetradrachms are a loose regional grouping of late La Tène coinage produced in the Carpathian basin, most likely by Celtic populations in what is now western Slovakia and adjacent Moravia. They derive ultimately from the Macedonian tetradrachms of Philip II, though the prototypes had passed through so many generations of copying by this point that the chain of stylistic transmission is more typological inference than documented lineage.
Göbl's classification of the type remains the working reference, though attribution to a specific tribe is impossible with current evidence — no hoard provenance has conclusively tied this emission to a single issuing group.