Gallo Belgic Morini 2nd Century BC Uniface Tree Gold Quarter Stater

Gallo Belgic

Morini 2nd Century BC Uniface Tree Gold Quarter Stater

ABC 43, 11mm, 1.46g

Obverse

Remains of the openwork boat, surmounted by two masts, a globule on the bow.

Reverse

Tree flanked by two horizontal ornamental symbols; below, broken sickle-shaped line with two crescent and lowercase gamma symbols.

Provenance

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

Baldwins Auction 4, Lot 202, 03.05.1995.   VA69-3

This coin comes with a previous label.

Iron Age Gallo Belgic & early uninscribed coins are found all over Britain. These coins were made in Gaul then imported during the 2nd-1st Century BC, before coin manufacture was established in Britain. The introduction of Britain’s own coinage in around 60-50 BC was in an uninscribed form to start with, only later did rulers realise the potential of inscriptions.