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Tetradrachm Tinco-Stufe Type
| Issuer | West Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Celticized male head facing left, identified as a schematized rendition of Apollo laureate, rendered in the abstract La Tène artistic tradition. The facial features are stylized with prominent pellet eyes, a boldly modeled nose, and a simplified mouth. The hair is indicated by a series of raised pellets and flowing locks arranged across the crown and behind the neck. The surrounding field is plain and unlettered, consistent with the anepigraphic character of West Norican Celtic coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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West Noricum occupied a strategically valuable stretch of the eastern Alps, and its Celtic tribes maintained enough political cohesion to sustain a recognizable coinage tradition across nearly two centuries. The Tinco-Stufe classification is a typological grouping established by modern scholarship — "Stufe" meaning stage or phase — used to organize the stylistic progression of Noric tetradrachms as local die-cutters moved progressively further from their Macedonian prototype sources.
Kostial 116 sits within a sequence where abstraction accelerated sharply, the original Hellenistic influences dissolved into increasingly schematic Celtic rendering across successive die generations.