Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Duro Boat Bird Silver Quarter Stater
£125.00
Durotriges c.58 BC-AD 43 Duro Boat Bird Silver Quarter Stater
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. Upside-down Y-shape and ‘bird’ (uncertain irregular object) above. Y-shape and six-sided L-shape below.
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S368; 10mm, 0.94g
Comes with rough find area provenance
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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