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Tetradrachm Thasos Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣHOΣV ZHOΣZ ITNMH N И |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Thasian tetradrachm became a template for Celtic imitators across the Balkans and Danube basin after Thasos resumed striking silver in bulk following its liberation from Macedonian control in 196 BC. Celtic tribes didn't simply copy — they progressively abstracted the prototype across generations of die-cutting, so that later specimens in the sequence show the original design dissolved into near-unrecognizable schematic forms. Göbl's class III placement puts this piece well into that degenerative sequence.
Attribution to a specific tribe remains impossible without hoard provenance.