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Tetradrachm Warasdin A Type
| Issuer | East Noricum |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed male head, interpreted as Apollo, facing left, rendered in the Celtic La Tène style derived from earlier Macedonian prototypes. The head is adorned with a prominent three-strand pearl diadem surmounted by a wreath of stylized leaves, with flowing hair depicted in schematic, beaded locks behind. A large globular earring is visible at the ear, and the facial features — almond-shaped eye, broad nose, and full lips — display the characteristic abstraction of Celtic die-cutting. The entire design is set within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Warasdin group takes its name from the Croatian city of Varaždin, where significant hoards of these late La Tène silver coins were recovered in the 19th century. East Noric coinage of this period was produced by Celtic tribes operating in the eastern Alpine and Pannonian zones, functioning within a monetary economy sophisticated enough to sustain recognizable regional type families across multiple generations of dies. Kostial's corpus remains the essential reference for Noric Celtic coinage precisely because the political entities behind these issues left no written record — the coins are often the primary archaeological evidence for the groups that struck them.