168-31 BC., Celtic, Balkans area, the Bastarnae or tribes in the Serdi region?, imitation of Macedonian issues of Philip V, Æ19, cf. Malloy Danubian Celts type H1A.
Celtic imitative of a rare Macedonian issue struck under Philip V or Perseus, 187 - 168 B.C. The choice was appropriate for the Serdi Celts as the river Strymon runs through the Serdi region. Imitations from Serdi region weren't used to fool Macedonian traders but as their own currency. The Bastarnae were of uncertain, but probably mixed Germanic-Celtic-Sarmatian, ethnic origin, and lived between the Danube and the Dnieper during the last centuries B.C. and early centuries A.D. This coins is imitative of the Macedonian issues of Philip V of Macedon (221-179 B.C.), SNG Cop. 1299.