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Tetradrachm Zopfreiter Type
| Issuer | Uncertain Eastern European Celts |
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| Year | 200 BC - 101 BC |
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| Weight | 11.67 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The "Zopfreiter" designation — German for "braid rider" — comes from the distinctive treatment of the horse's mane in this regional coinage tradition, a naming convention applied by Central European scholars to distinguish die groupings that share specific stylistic conventions traceable to Macedonian prototypes filtering through successive generations of Celtic die-cutters. By the second century BC, the original Philippic tetradrachm ancestry had been so thoroughly abstracted through serial copying that individual workshops produced highly localized variants, the Zopfreiter type being among the more coherent regional clusters identified through die-link study. Attribution to a specific tribe remains impossible with current evidence.