Durotriges 50 BC-AD 43 Gold Quarter Stater Duro Boat Gold *Scarce*

Durotriges 50 BC-AD 43 Gold Quarter Stater

Duro Boat Gold

3 Men in boat, pellet rosette to left / Zigzag thunderbolt across field, Y shape and uncertain objects to each side

Scarce

ABC2205, S368; 11mm, 1.49g

An early example struck in reasonable gold, with little wear.

Comes with previous dealers printed 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.