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Tetradrachm Triple-Pearl-Circlet Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse description | A mounted rider proceeding to the right at a gallop, depicted in the schematised Celtic manner derived from Macedonian tetradrachm prototypes. The rider's head, shown in profile, is surmounted by a prominent spiked or tufted hairstyle rendered as a bold pellet. The horse is shown in full stride with exaggerated, elongated limbs and a rounded, voluminous body typical of Celtic coinage abstraction. A large annulet appears prominently before the horse in the right field. The field is otherwise plain, with no inscription or exergual legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 201 BC) |
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The "Triple-Pearl-Circlet" designation is typological shorthand used by dealers and cataloguers — Kostial and related Central European references group these issues by stylistic degeneration from Macedonian prototypes, specifically the tetradrachms of Philip II, whose coinage flooded Celtic territories following his campaigns in Thrace and the Balkans during the mid-4th century. What began as close imitation progressively abstracted over generations of Celtic die-cutters working without direct access to the originals.
Attribution to a specific tribe or mint remains genuinely unresolved. Hoards containing this type cluster broadly across the middle Danube region, which narrows geography without settling it.