Durotriges c. 60-30 BC Billon Stater Turf Cutter / Cranborne Chase mule *Excessively Rare*

Durotriges c. 60-30 BC Billon Stater

Turf Cutter / Cranborne Chase

Wreath / Disjoined horse with no obvious head

Excessively Rare

ABC2154/7, 19mm, 4.67g

This coin comes with previous collectors handwritten label.

 

The Durotriges tribe occupied modern day Dorset with part of adjoining Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. There is some mystery over the precise arrangement and correct attribution of coinage in the South-west, the Chute stater is probably struck by the Durotriges tribe but in recent years has been attributed to the Belgae.

The quick debasement of precious metal in the silver staters struck by the Durotriges would suggest an issue with the supply of silver to the area in the early first century AD, perhaps linked to the Roman conquest of West Gaul.