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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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| Reverse description | A mounted horseman advancing to the left, depicted in the characteristic Celtic schematic style derived from Macedonian prototype coinage. The rider sits astride a horse in full gallop, with the horse's legs rendered in a lively, stylized manner and pellet ornaments visible beneath the animal's body. The rider's form is boldly modeled but highly abstracted, reflecting the La Tène artistic vocabulary. The field is plain and anepigraphic, with no legend or exergual inscription. |
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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.