Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Duro Boat Gold Quarter Stater *Scarce*
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Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Duro Boat Gold Quarter Stater
Scarce
ABC 2205, 11mm, 1.37g
Sharp strike, most appealing in hand.
Obverse
Boar (‘three men in a boat’/’wolf and twins’) design, formed from a large crescent with one end squared off, bristles on back, and three appendages (legs) hanging from the crescent. Pellet rosette (daisy) to right.
Reverse
Zigzag thunderbolt across field. Y-shapes, tree and six-sided irregular object around.
Comments
Allen Type: British O.
Van Arsdell Classification: Durotrigan A, Uninscribed Gold Coins, Geometric Type.
See also Duro Boat Bird (ABC 2208), the same coin in silver.
Provenance
This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins.
C Rudd FPL 9, no 59 (1993). Found near Ferndown, Dorset 1990 VA1225-1
This coin comes with a previous 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.
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