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Tetradrachm Velemer mit Gesichtsrand Type
| Issuer | Celts of Pannonia |
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| Year | 200 BC - 101 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Highly abstracted Celtic horse in motion facing right, rendered in the schematic La Tène style with the body reduced to bold, sweeping curves. The horse's arched neck and haunches are depicted with exaggerated, almost geometric forms typical of Pannonian Celtic coinage. Scattered pellets or globules appear above and around the horse, serving as decorative filler elements in the field. The flan is irregular and slightly concave, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Gesichtsrand" — face-edge — types take their name from the distinctive treatment of the coin's rim, a localizing feature that helps scholars place production within the eastern Celtic workshops of Pannonia during the second century BC. The Velemer type specifically clusters around finds from the Transdanubian region, where Celtic tribes operated silver supplies derived largely from Balkan mining networks disrupted by the Macedonian collapse after 168 BC.
Göbl's die study places this group within a dense sequence of Pannonian imitative strikings, with relatively tight die linkages suggesting concentrated rather than dispersed production.