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Drachm Athena Alkis Type
| Issuer | Boii of Southern Slovakia and Northern Hungary |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, rendered in the Celtic La Tène artistic tradition with stylized, deeply engraved hair locks cascading beneath the helmet. The helmet features a prominent cheekpiece and a curved bowl with incised decoration. A torque or neck ornament is visible at the truncation, characteristic of Celtic adaptations of Hellenistic prototypes. The legend CIECIN appears in the lower field in native Celtic script characters. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 1 BC) |
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The Boii were expelled from their territories in the Po Valley by Rome around 191 BC, after which the tribal remnants migrated northeast and eventually settled across the Danube basin. Their coinage evolved over generations of displacement, absorbing Macedonian stylistic influence — particularly from the coinage of Antigonos III Doson — while progressively abstracting the original designs into forms that bear only structural relationship to their Greek prototypes. The Alkis type represents one of the later stages of this devolution.
No ancient mint site for this series has been archaeologically confirmed.