ABSTRACT
Boian power in the Carpathian basin reached its high point under the rule of King Kritasiros, probably shortly before the middle of the first century BC. The wars between the Boii and the Dacians took place in the Danube, Tisza plain and in the north-western plain of the Carpathian basin and at the time did not touch the regnum Noricum. The Boian expedition against Noreia may have been a daring attempt to find a new home in the southern Norican Alpine valleys. Celtic coins were certainly minted elsewhere, as well as by the Norici in central Carinthia, for example by the Ambidravi around Teurnia and also in the Celeia area. The Roman merchants who met Norican traders on the Magdalensberg were mostly representatives of great republican business houses. The intensive Roman trade in Noricum in the late republican period had important consequences for the country.
