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1/8 Stater Muschel Type
| Issuer | Boii |
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| Year | 200 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Convex, highly irregular and essentially uninscribed field exhibiting a deeply textured, undulating surface characteristic of Celtic Muschel (shell) type fractional gold coinage. The flan surface displays flowing, rippled ridges and furrows across the entire field, reflecting the abstract, stylized aesthetic of late La Tène Celtic goldsmithing. No figurative device or legend is present; the design is entirely non-representational. The irregular flan edge is typical of hand-struck Celtic quarter- and eighth-stater denominations. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Boii occupied a vast territory stretching from Bohemia into the Po Valley before Roman military pressure and, critically, a catastrophic defeat by the Romans in 191 BC effectively destroyed them as a coherent political entity in Italy. Their gold coinage — struck in fractional denominations like this eighth-stater — was already a reduced, abstracted evolution of Macedonian prototypes that had filtered north through trade and mercenary service. The Muschel type takes its name from the shell-like curl that the obverse motif degenerated into over successive die generations, a process of stylistic drift that itself helps sequence these otherwise undated issues.