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Tetradrachm Kinnlos Type
| Issuer | Dacians of Transylvania |
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| Year | 300 BC - 1 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Stylized male head facing right, rendered in a highly abstracted Celtic-Dacian artistic idiom derived from the Macedonian tetradrachm prototype of Philip II. The effigy displays a wreath of schematized laurel leaves atop curling hair, reduced to bold, rounded pellet-like locks. The facial features are dramatically simplified, with a large circular eye in low relief, a broad nose, and a pronounced chinless (Kinnlos) profile — the defining characteristic of this emission type. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 1 BC) |
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The "Kinnlos" (chinless) designation comes from German-language scholarship — a morphological label applied to a specific degeneration sequence in Dacian imitative coinage, where successive die-cutting generations progressively abstracted the portrait until the jawline simply disappeared. These are not official issues in any administrative sense; they are tribal silver struck by communities in the Carpathian interior who had access to Macedonian tetradrachms — most likely Philip II or Thasos types — and reproduced them through a chain of imitation that accumulated error over decades.
Pink's classification remains the foundational reference, though the sequencing of sub-types continues to be debated as new finds emerge from Romanian hoards.