Eastern 1st Century BC Beaded Trophy Cantian Style Gold Quarter Stater *Extremely Rare*

Eastern 1st Century BC Beaded Trophy Cantian Style Gold Quarter Stater

Plain except for slight banding.

Stylised Roman trophy (‘palm tree’) with annulet at base and three roots joined by an arc. Ringed pellet in large ring above, with fronds coming out of ringed pellets either side, and annulets above. Boxed saltires either side. Beaded mirror S-shapes each side of base.

Extremely Rare

17  known.

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ABC 2243; 11mm, 1.38g

Allen Type: British Pa.

Sills DK 452 (1 obverse, 9 reverse dies): Early North-East Thames Coinage; Type: British Le2/Essex Banded; Quarter Staters: Beaded Trophy. Derived from Cantian (ABC 192) rather than Gallo-Belgic coins and may be intended to emphasise their Cantian roots. The fussy design aligns them with the Flared Mane stater (ABC 2240).

Essex Banded mostly uniface gold is typologically unrelated to other north Thames issues. They might be contemporary to or later than British Ld/Ld. They are simiar to Gallo-Belgic D.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – British G (Early Clacton) / Aa Westerham – British Ab (Great Waltham) – Shotley (British F) – British Lc/Ld – Local Issues/Essex Banded.

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins

M Vosper Jan 1998. Found North West Kent

This coin comes with a previous label.

 

Eastern

There are 33 early uninscribed types, found mainly in the eastern part of the North Thames region, especially Essex, which can’t comfortably be attributed either to the Trinovantes of the Catuvellauni. They are mostly extremely rare types – only seven were published by Van Arsdell, and they don’t seem to slot into any of the principle North Thames series. These may be variants struck by the Trinovantes or Catuvellauni or they could have been struck by smaller sub-tribes.