Tetradrachm Unscharfer Type

The "Unscharfer Typus" — literally "blurred type" — is a numismatic classification rather than a mint designation, applied to a loose grouping of late Celtic silver tetradrachms from East Noricum whose dies were cut with deliberately soft, abstracted forms. Noricum, the Celtic kingdom occupying much of modern Austria and Slovenia, maintained sophisticated silver coinage well into the first century BC, when Roman commercial and political pressure gradually displaced indigenous monetary production. Kostial 209 sits within a series whose attribution remains contested — provenance from the eastern Alpine hoards is the primary evidence for regional assignment.